You might have noticed that "China Travel" is trending both on Chinese and international social media. As China expands the scope of its visa-free travel policy, an increasing number of curious foreigners, including many vloggers, are coming to explore a country they have heard so much about but never visited before. Unsurprisingly, many of them find that the real China they see and experience first-hand is totally different from what they were told back home. By taking the "seeing is believing" antidote, they are breaking free of the persistent indoctrination about China by Western media.
It's no secret that some people in the US are trying to wage a cognitive war against China. By repeating false accusations and spreading disinformation, they aim to tarnish the reputation of China, the one it labels as "primary rival", and make the world believe that somehow China is a "global villain", so that they could galvanize more resources and hoax more people into containing China's development and retain US global hegemony or dominance, whatever you call it. Some recent revelations once again attest to this fact.
Disinformation operations on social media
In June, an exposé by Reuters revealed a year-long anti-vax disinformation campaign since spring 2020 by the Pentagon to discredit China's pandemic relief efforts across Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines, as well as in Central Asia and parts of the Middle East. The campaign involved creating fake accounts to spread rumors that the virus was a bioweapon engineered by China and that Chinese vaccines contained prohibited substances.
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