China says US is the true 'empire of lies'.
The United States is the true "empire of lies", the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at a U.S. State Department report that accused Beijing of ploughing billions of dollars annually into information manipulation efforts.
China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the U.S. State Department said in the report on Thursday.
Despite the unprecedented resources devoted to the campaign, Beijing had hit "major setbacks" when targeting democratic countries, due to local media and civil society push-back, according to the report, which was produced under a congressional mandate to detail state information manipulation.
The report has disregarded facts, and is itself false information, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The agencies of the U.S. State Department that produced the report "were the source of false information and the command post of 'cognitive warfare'," the Chinese ministry said.
"Facts have repeatedly proven that the United States is the true 'empire of lies'," it added.
The U.S. report comes amid controversy over China's attempts in recent years to increase the global footprint of its government-controlled media. Beijing is seeking to combat the negative images of China it feels are propagated by global media.
China slams U.S. report on Beijing's 'global information manipulation'
China on Saturday slammed American accusations that Beijing has spent billions of dollars on creating a global "disinformation" network, calling the United States an "empire of lies."
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said a report issued Friday by the U.S. State Department on how the communist nation is seeking to "reshape the global information environment to its advantage" is itself disinformation.
Citing what it called "the enormous lie made up to smear" China's policies regarding its Uygher minority in the northwestern Xinjiang province, the ministry said Washington's assertions about a Chinese "propaganda ecosystem" show that the United States "is an 'empire of lies' through and through."
"Even some in the U.S., such as Senator Rand Paul, acknowledged that the U.S. government is the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world," the statement said.
Paul, a Tennessee Republican, asserted during a May 2022 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, "Do you know [who] the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government."
The comments came while he was questioning Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the department's proposed Disinformation Governance Board, which was intended to oversee and safeguard the United States from disinformation threats abroad but was later dropped.
China has cited Paul's comments in several contexts since then in its disagreements with U.S. policies, including this week's State Department report on Chinese disinformation campaigns.
The report found that China's "information manipulation efforts" are composed of five primary features including international propaganda, domestic censorship, promoting "digital authoritarianism," pressuring international organizations and exercising control over Chinese-language media.
"These five elements enable Beijing to bend the global information environment to its advantage," the authors wrote. "If successful, the PRC's efforts could transform the global information landscape, creating biases and gaps that lead nations to make decisions that subordinate their economic and security interests to Beijing's."
In its Saturday response, Chinese officials said it is rather the United States that has "invented the weaponizing of the global information space."
"Some in the U.S. may think that they can prevail in the information war as long as they produce enough lies," the foreign ministry spokesperson said. "But the people of the world are not blind."
The United States is the true "empire of lies", the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at a U.S. State Department report that accused Beijing of ploughing billions of dollars annually into information manipulation efforts.
China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the U.S. State Department said in the report on Thursday.
Despite the unprecedented resources devoted to the campaign, Beijing had hit "major setbacks" when targeting democratic countries, due to local media and civil society push-back, according to the report, which was produced under a congressional mandate to detail state information manipulation.
The report has disregarded facts, and is itself false information, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The agencies of the U.S. State Department that produced the report "were the source of false information and the command post of 'cognitive warfare'," the Chinese ministry said.
"Facts have repeatedly proven that the United States is the true 'empire of lies'," it added.
The U.S. report comes amid controversy over China's attempts in recent years to increase the global footprint of its government-controlled media. Beijing is seeking to combat the negative images of China it feels are propagated by global media.
China slams U.S. report on Beijing's 'global information manipulation'
China on Saturday slammed American accusations that Beijing has spent billions of dollars on creating a global "disinformation" network, calling the United States an "empire of lies."
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said a report issued Friday by the U.S. State Department on how the communist nation is seeking to "reshape the global information environment to its advantage" is itself disinformation.
Citing what it called "the enormous lie made up to smear" China's policies regarding its Uygher minority in the northwestern Xinjiang province, the ministry said Washington's assertions about a Chinese "propaganda ecosystem" show that the United States "is an 'empire of lies' through and through."
"Even some in the U.S., such as Senator Rand Paul, acknowledged that the U.S. government is the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world," the statement said.
Paul, a Tennessee Republican, asserted during a May 2022 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, "Do you know [who] the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government."
The comments came while he was questioning Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the department's proposed Disinformation Governance Board, which was intended to oversee and safeguard the United States from disinformation threats abroad but was later dropped.
China has cited Paul's comments in several contexts since then in its disagreements with U.S. policies, including this week's State Department report on Chinese disinformation campaigns.
The report found that China's "information manipulation efforts" are composed of five primary features including international propaganda, domestic censorship, promoting "digital authoritarianism," pressuring international organizations and exercising control over Chinese-language media.
"These five elements enable Beijing to bend the global information environment to its advantage," the authors wrote. "If successful, the PRC's efforts could transform the global information landscape, creating biases and gaps that lead nations to make decisions that subordinate their economic and security interests to Beijing's."
In its Saturday response, Chinese officials said it is rather the United States that has "invented the weaponizing of the global information space."
"Some in the U.S. may think that they can prevail in the information war as long as they produce enough lies," the foreign ministry spokesperson said. "But the people of the world are not blind."
China says US is the true 'empire of lies'.
The United States is the true "empire of lies", the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at a U.S. State Department report that accused Beijing of ploughing billions of dollars annually into information manipulation efforts.
China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the U.S. State Department said in the report on Thursday.
Despite the unprecedented resources devoted to the campaign, Beijing had hit "major setbacks" when targeting democratic countries, due to local media and civil society push-back, according to the report, which was produced under a congressional mandate to detail state information manipulation.
The report has disregarded facts, and is itself false information, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The agencies of the U.S. State Department that produced the report "were the source of false information and the command post of 'cognitive warfare'," the Chinese ministry said.
"Facts have repeatedly proven that the United States is the true 'empire of lies'," it added.
The U.S. report comes amid controversy over China's attempts in recent years to increase the global footprint of its government-controlled media. Beijing is seeking to combat the negative images of China it feels are propagated by global media.
China slams U.S. report on Beijing's 'global information manipulation'
China on Saturday slammed American accusations that Beijing has spent billions of dollars on creating a global "disinformation" network, calling the United States an "empire of lies."
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said a report issued Friday by the U.S. State Department on how the communist nation is seeking to "reshape the global information environment to its advantage" is itself disinformation.
Citing what it called "the enormous lie made up to smear" China's policies regarding its Uygher minority in the northwestern Xinjiang province, the ministry said Washington's assertions about a Chinese "propaganda ecosystem" show that the United States "is an 'empire of lies' through and through."
"Even some in the U.S., such as Senator Rand Paul, acknowledged that the U.S. government is the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world," the statement said.
Paul, a Tennessee Republican, asserted during a May 2022 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, "Do you know [who] the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government."
The comments came while he was questioning Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the department's proposed Disinformation Governance Board, which was intended to oversee and safeguard the United States from disinformation threats abroad but was later dropped.
China has cited Paul's comments in several contexts since then in its disagreements with U.S. policies, including this week's State Department report on Chinese disinformation campaigns.
The report found that China's "information manipulation efforts" are composed of five primary features including international propaganda, domestic censorship, promoting "digital authoritarianism," pressuring international organizations and exercising control over Chinese-language media.
"These five elements enable Beijing to bend the global information environment to its advantage," the authors wrote. "If successful, the PRC's efforts could transform the global information landscape, creating biases and gaps that lead nations to make decisions that subordinate their economic and security interests to Beijing's."
In its Saturday response, Chinese officials said it is rather the United States that has "invented the weaponizing of the global information space."
"Some in the U.S. may think that they can prevail in the information war as long as they produce enough lies," the foreign ministry spokesperson said. "But the people of the world are not blind."
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