China blamed them USA that it is the “empire of lies”, after the publication of a report, which he called “biased”, of American diplomacy which says that Beijing promotes disinformation around the world.
This report by the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a State Department agency that aims to combat disinformation, accuses Beijing of spending billions of dollars a year on “overseas information manipulation” operations.
According to the report published on Thursday, the China it primarily promotes “digital authoritarianism” by funding propaganda, suppressing critical information or controlling Chinese-language media.
GEC coordinator James Rubin said that if nothing is done, he fears “a slow and methodical erosion of democratic values.”
In a statement issued on Saturday night, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called the report “contrary to the facts and biased”, which “is itself disinformation”.
“The US is itself the pioneer of the information war aimed at public opinion,” he emphasized.
The ministry cited the CIA’s Cold War-era Operation Mockingbird, which aimed to influence the US and foreign media, or even then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003 speech before the UN Security Council during of which it claimed that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction.
“Events have repeatedly proven that the US is more than worthy of its title of the empire of lies,” China’s foreign ministry said.
“More and more people are seeing beyond the layer of lies the US spins to cover up its own misdeeds and the less than glorious way it maintains its hegemony by smearing others,” he added.
Beijing also accuses Washington of spreading “the lie of the century” about Chinese policy in Xinjiang province.
The US, for its part, accuses China of committing “genocide” in this province against the Uyghur Muslim minority.
Source: News Beast
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