A State Department report which is not yet public concludes that Russia, China and Iran have been coordinating their propaganda efforts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. All three countries have been spreading the message that the U.S., not China, is the origin point of the virus.
The three governments are pushing a host of matching messages: that the novel coronavirus is an American bioweapon, that the U.S. is scoring political points off the crisis, that the virus didn’t come from China, that U.S. troops spread it, that America’s sanctions are killing Iranians, that China’s response was great while the U.S.’ was negligent, that all three governments are managing the crisis well, and that the U.S. economy can’t bear the toll of the virus…
One core message has been that China is a strong global health leader and the United States, meanwhile, is a weak ally. Lea Gabrielle, who helms the GEC, told POLITICO that China has also let Russian propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. spread throughout its country — where the Beijing government’s internet censorship is notoriously relentless.
“What we saw as the health crisis started to come under control in China is that the CCP really started pushing a concerted effort to try to reshape that narrative,” she said, using the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party. “So in a short period of time the CCP went from letting Russian disinformation claiming the U.S. was the source of the virus proliferate in Chinese social media, to raising questions on state media about the origin’s source, to promoting disinformation that the U.S. was the source of the virus.”
The fact that this is circulating inside China as well as being pushed outside China suggests the goal here is to protect Xi Jinping from the potential backlash within China which was clearly building after the death of Dr. Li Wenliang in February. Full Story -John Sexton - Hot Air
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