Reuters reported last week that former President Donald Trump directed the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct a covert influence operation targeting China.
China's foreign ministry has accused the U.S. of 'spreading rumors' in response to a recent revelation about former President Donald Trump authorizing a covert influence operation targeting Beijing.'Concocting and spreading rumors will only get one lose credibility faster. Spreading disinformation cannot inhibit China's progress but will only discredit the U.S.,' Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during the daily press briefing on Friday.
officials told Reuters that the goal of the 2019 authorization was to create paranoia within the Chinese government through an influence campaign on Chinese social media.'We wanted them chasing ghosts,' one former U.S. official told Reuters.The campaign sought to frame the top Chinese leadership as corrupt and dubbed China's mega infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative, as a wasteful effort, Reuters reported, citing sources.
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