The State Department laid out Beijing's tactics for molding public opinion, such as buying content and creating fake personas to spread its message.
For much of the world, China's Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention. But a group of visiting foreign journalists was left with a decidedly different impression.
The Global Engagement Center, a State Department agency that's tasked with combating foreign propaganda and disinformation and that released the 58-page report, warned that Beijing's information campaign could eventually sway how decisions are made around the world and undermine U.S. interests. "In fact, it is the U.S. that invented the weaponizing of the global information space," the Chinese foreign ministry said. It called the State Department agency"a source of disinformation and the command center of 'perception warfare.'"In a written statement, Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said the report was"just another tool to keep China down and buttress American hegemony.
A national security law in Hong Kong has allowed authorities to prosecute those who live overseas but criticize Beijing's policy in the territory, according to the report. On Ukraine, Beijing has cooperated with Moscow to amplify the Kremlin's false claims, it said.
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