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| Reuters: The CIA, on Trump's orders, tried to stir up opposition sentiments in China | |
| 2024-03-15 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In 2019,the administration of former President of the United States of America Donald Trump instructed the CIA to launch a campaign on Chinese social networks to incite public opinion against the leadership of the PRC. This was reported by the British agency Reuters, citing three former officials and intelligence sources. “Two years after taking office as president, Donald Trump authorized U.S. intelligence to launch a covert Chinese social media campaign aimed at turning public opinion against his government,” the agency writes.
According to the publication, the efforts were aimed at “inciting paranoia among the country’s top leadership” and forcing managers to spend resources on fighting the virtual space. According to media reports, a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the news about the CIA initiative demonstrates that the US government is using the media space as a weapon of lies and manipulation of public opinion. The agency emphasizes that it could not determine whether the administration of the next US President Joe Biden will continue this program. However, when the government grants the CIA covert action powers through presidential orders, they often remain in effect across administrations, two of the sources said. As Regnum reported, in January 2017, two influential Chinese newspapers published messages addressed to Trump that Beijing would “take off the gloves” if the new US president continued his policy of flirting with Taiwan after his inauguration. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said he would reconsider the One China policy. The Chinese Foreign Minister noted that this policy is the basis of Sino-American relations and is not subject to revision. After winning the presidential election, Trump received a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Hunter ....something? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-15 21:51 |
| #5 I remember. I speculate it was a mole, blackmailed, and Caucasian. Perhaps even politically connected? But that's just me speculating and shit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-03-15 21:33 |
| #4 CIA tried to meddle in China. They’ve been a bit handicapped because of that mole who got so many of their agents in China killed, do y’all remember? I don’t recall the details, but it seems to me that they never admitted to properly rebuilding the organization. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-03-15 20:38 |
| #3 The CIA is always stopped by meddling kids. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-03-15 18:36 |
| #2 Of course CIA tried to meddle in China. That's what they do. They probably stopped when ordered to meddle by Trump - the REAL enemy! |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-15 06:42 |
| #1 This was reported by the British agency Reuters F - Reliability unknown Insufficient information to evaluate reliability. May or may not be reliable. 6 - Difficult to say The validity of the information can not be determined. Trump directed ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-03-15 02:04 |