https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/
Nice to see your hard earned tax dollars are going towards such a fabulous cause. Meanwhile I’ve heard it said that Chinese and Russian bots exploit divisions in the Western world by talking about things like poverty, homelessness, gun violence, racism and sexism. Well maybe you should start doing something about those issues to stop them being used as fuel for alleged foreign propaganda efforts hmmm?
Why would we let only our adversaries perspective be broadcast? Also bots, misinformation and specifically targeting wedge issues to drive a division in our country is not beneficial to our society.
Because maybe it is enough to speak the truth instead of anti propaganda. That being said it is not clear how the money is spent exactly.
Well we could devote those resources to solving the problems they are criticizing maybe. It would improve the lives of USians and undercut the arguments being brought up.
Spending billions to tell other countries that more infrastructure is actually bad is probably counterproductive and wasteful. Like how we spent money to kill Filipino people by telling them to avoid the Chinese produced covid jab.
Why would the leopard restrict its own diet of faces?
What’s driving divisions in your shithole country is the fact that capitalist system of relations has driven the working majority to the brink. That’s what’s leading people to lose faith in the system and become discontent. The notion that it’s nefarious foreign actors that are ruining the shining city on the hill is imbecilic beyond belief. Propaganda has always existed, the question is why people are receptive to it today when they weren’t before.
“they weren’t before”
source?
Go look at the history of politics in the US, it’s pretty clear that societal cohesion was far higher prior to 2008 crash.