Chinese Media Are Instruments of Information Warfare

2020-02-20

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. In another important Trump administration effort to expose and counter Communist China’s ongoing “unrestricted warfare” against us, the State Department announced Tuesday that five of Beijing’s most important propaganda instruments would be treated as what they are: agents of the Chinese state. That means they will, henceforth, be subjected to the same restrictions as other PRC personnel in this country. This will help counter their aggressive efforts ...

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

In another important Trump administration effort to expose and counter Communist China’s ongoing “unrestricted warfare” against us, the State Department announced Tuesday that five of Beijing’s most important propaganda instruments would be treated as what they are: agents of the Chinese state.

That means they will, henceforth, be subjected to the same restrictions as other PRC personnel in this country. This will help counter their aggressive efforts to disinform, otherwise influence and subvert Americans and their nation.

Unless, of course, U.S. media like the Washington Post and New York Times continue to enable such activities by permitting Chinese information warfare operatives to run their tripe as “advertising supplements.” The early returns suggest that the Times, for one, intends to do so.

The very least we can expect is that, from now on, such inserts will be clearly labeled as Chinese government propaganda.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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