The United States is finally getting serious about the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda outlets operating on U.S. soil. Even so, the United States remains a step behind, as the CCP is using social media to try to defeat President Donald Trump.
The first step in countering the Chinese media outlets is to be honest about them.
On June 22, the State Department designated the U.S. operations of China Central Television, China News Service, the People’s Daily, and the Global Times as foreign missions. This announcement follows the Feb. 18 designation of Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily Distribution Corporation, and Hai Tian Development USA as foreign missions.
These designations provide clarity about China’s state-owned media operating in the United States. They’re not independent media outlets. They’re propaganda outlets seeking to influence opinion on behalf of the CCP. The State Department is showing the CCP that the United States is serious about protecting our country.
What the State Department didn’t say, but is well known to the U.S. government, is that these CCP-owned media also act as spy networks. So, too, do many mainland Chinese business companies operating this country, which are part of the CCP’s “united front.”
While the State Department’s actions are welcome, they don’t touch the new focus of CCP propaganda in the United States: social media.
The CCP’s social media army, sometimes called the “50 Cent Army” (because they are said to be paid 50 cents for each post they make), is very well trained. Hundreds of thousands of operatives follow directions and are grouped into layers. When there’s an important issue—for example, a protest in Hong Kong, or the U.S.–China trade war—they will split into two opposite groups, debate, create controversial topics, make the topics heated, and then gradually guide most of the conversation into the direction the CCP wants.
It’s a well-planned, well-thought-out strategy. The group that speaks for the opposite side has strict guidelines—what they can say in taking the opposing view, and the red lines never to cross. Some lower level groups only repost.
Their work can create big influencers within days. And they can also buy big influencers, give them money, let them keep talking as before, but speak for the CCP at critical times, on critical issues.
The CCP’s social media army interfered with an election in Taiwan. The Tainan mayor—who became the head of one of Taiwan’s two major parties—was elected under the influence of the CCP’s social media army.
Now, this same army has marched into the United States. The CCP has a strategy: It’s easier to beat Trump than to beat America as a country. This is the same strategy the CCP uses to target the leaders of organizations, or the elites of countries, going after these individuals rather than tackling the organizations or countries as whole.
We know TikTok served as a platform to create confusion around Trump’s Tulsa rally. It encouraged people to register for the event but not show up. This was not an act of individuals, but a well organized attack. And that was just a small test.
This social media army can also pretend to talk like Democrats, attack Trump, and, using a large, well-organized team, appear to dominate opinion. The CCP takes advantage of this country’s open system, and the United States doesn’t have enough understanding of its tactics.
Today, the Indian government announced that it has banned 59 apps from China, including TikTok, WeChat, Baidu map, and so on.
In the United States, every action takes a long process. On the one hand, this is how a democratic system works. But on the other hand, the slow pace is also the result of a long peaceful life that makes most Americans unaware of the enemy next to them.
Beijing has passed the national security law custom-made for Hong Kong. Pompeo announced that “as Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, the United States will today end exports of U.S.-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on U.S. defense and dual-use technologies to Hong Kong as it does for China.”
Hong Kong has acted as a white glove for Beijing to access the Western financial markets and sensitive technology, including military and space technology. One might wonder why Beijing doesn’t mind losing this glove and how Beijing can now get these highly desirable technologies. Beijing is one step ahead again: it has set up many intermediary landing places in other free-port countries that function like Hong Kong’s white glove, to ship sensitive technology to China.
The CCP may seem to be clever, but as the popular Chinese saying goes, “Heaven is eliminating the CCP.” Though the CCP continues its insidious tactics, it now faces crises from every direction. No matter how sly, stealthy, and ruthless the CCP is, the wind is now against it.
It goes without saying! The Chinese Communist Party prefers a fellow communist as our president! Therefore, they’ll always support the democrat!
Deny CCP acess to SM sites? ID sources in US from China IE college students.
name names
Use in trade talks
End this
Alas or let CCP run wild on Facebook, Twitter??
Bottom line to ruin President
Hold Beijing accountable
Blame Nixon and Kissinger, without who we wouldn’t be in this pickle oh I forget Truman who started it by not allowing MacArthur to destroy North Korea or held back our troops from Berlin at the time being the only ones with the bomb.
Yes the should identified and removed
So why is America so wimpy? Just block them !
How can anyone be confident on-line when subversion is so clever? I do appreciate the conclusion that there is effective push-back. Too many Americans do not seem to mind losing freedom.
China is NOT our friend. They have come to the conclusion that it is infinitely easier to conquer the U.S. by cyber war than by fighting a conventional or nuclear war. Watch out for whom you vote for this November. If he or she exhibits any socialist, communist or progressive tendencies, then vote for the other guy. This advice goes for the Presidential, senatorial or house elections. Not a far out conspiracy theory, it is a fact. Make no mistake, China wants to take over the United States.
Don’t expect DIMMs to object to this “foreign interference” in our elections. What with Hunter Biden’s millions in bribes (uh, salary) from the ChiComs!
epoch times. it is a chinese organization. How can you trust that?
This is a war between God and the devil!!!
This is NOT a war for land and riches. THIS A WAR FOR. SOULS!!!
The Chinese are being used and they don’t know it!!! They are as much being taken over as we Americans and other countries
Watch for a war between Russia and China!!!
A seer of some years ago was given this image by the Blessed Virgin of Russia and China at war in the ocean.
THE. ONLY. ANSWER. IS. PRAYER TO GOD!!!!
When did you talk to God last. Or even think of HIM ?????!!!!! YOU might be part of the problem we’re facing today!!!! We
Good article. We the people must urge the President to have CIA monitor these social media CCP outlets.
Extremely fed up with the intrusion by China, Russia, and many others. If the social media companies do not stop it, then it must be banned and they shut them off. Enough!
Tell the world, tell our citizens and ensure that people are aware of this crap and to raise their voices and demand our government enact laws, and sharpen the technology to block it. Stop buying if made in China (check the labels), etc. If social media will not do it, then we must drop them for the frauds they are.
It took President Trump to finally try to get China out of our lives! How can people doubt that he cares more for our country and its citizens than most of our other so-called leaders? The Republicans in our federal government need to get a spine and stand up for his policies. It has been very disappointing to see how truly weak many of our Republicans sit back and do nothing.
This is a war between God and the devil
China is just as much “used” as we are And a seer years ago was given an image by the Blessed Virgin showing a war in the ocean between China and Russia
Do not think Russia isn’t trying to take us over also. Just different ways. Many of our Congress people are Marxist!! Pelosi for one.
Prayer has given us our president Trump! I didn’t vote for him as he has a “checkered” past- I voted against Hiliary! And now I a
So glad he is our president. I think God has given him to us because he has what it takes to undermine the injustices that other leaders have done to our country. That’s why his motto is make it great again
BUT DO NOT FORGET THIS IS PRIMARILY A WAR BETWEEN. GOD. AND THE DEVIL
WE. NEED PRAYERS. WE NEED GOD TO HELP US WE DONT DESERVE HIS AID IF WE DONT THANK HIM AND GIVE HIM WORSHIP
SO GO BACK TO CHURCH AND GET ON YOUR KNEES AND TALK TO GOD THANK HIM FOR HIS HELP TO KEEP US FROM THE DEVIL
I want to go to heaven – don’t you???!!!
Not only are the too many gullible American people susceptible to Chinese propaganda but they buy into the propaganda heard daily in the news media in this country. The lawless left has a host of followers who respond to their message because of greed and envy. Too many Americans today seem incapable of rational thought or even of thinking for them at all. They are dependent on others or on the government to solve their problems. They have no sense of personal responsibility.
The Chinese must really be laughing at us, because ironically our nation is leaning toward Marxism while they and other communists nations have moved toward capitalism.
Just WOW!
Biden has been bought and paid for by the Chinese, many times over! In Arizona, the Democratic candidate for US Senate is Mark Kelly. He has strong business ties to China. Him his Wife Gabby have a gun control lobbying organization. The Chinese and the left would like nothing more than to see our Second Amendment rights taken away.
Not a surprise at all. Most of the democrats in Congress have businesses in China that rake in millions by the day. They aren’t going to do anything to kill their cash cows. We the people need to make sure that republicans never get in bed with China or the United States is over. Pray and VOTE. ???
Very important information, KEEP POSTING IT every other day for a week and then twice a month through Nov. 3rd, thanks for your research into CCP and never stop!!! Thanks, from Illinois
Be an American. Stop being Brainwashed: 1) Stop watching the mainstream news; 2) Stop watching mainstream Entertainment; 3) Stop watching any and all Sports that either does not have the National Anthem and/or insults our Country via protests as kneeling. We are being brainwashed.
Decide to be free! Take our Country BACK: RED – Remove All Democrats!!!!!
Hunt them,Hack them and close them down.
Sorry to say this but we need to shut down all social media, maybe even the internet, it is an enemy to any decent society it is run by the one world order garbage that want to take over everything
We won’t begin to win against the Red Chinese until we cut ALL ties with them and that includes ALL trade.
Our problems started with Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, progressively getting worse since then.
Xi’s smile reminds me of the expression on a python’s face – a sneaky snake.
Isn’t it interesting that the Major News and Congress has focused on Russia and for the last 3 Years since the Democrat Party, it has taken control of the House of Representatives that the only thing they have done is focus on ” Russia”. China was never mentioned. Odd that.
How long is this going to go on? The CCP sends its students here, pays off our Professors etc. many of whom steal guarded research and technical information for the CCP. Let us not forget how much money Hunter Biden was paid by the CCP- I heard $1.5B for what. And Blue Collar Joe Biden didn’t know anything about this. Didn’t HB get w waiver to get into the military and which he violated and was kicked out of the service–and now he is in bed with the CCP what a joke! This reeks of Corruption and a land full of traitors in our Country. I wonder how many other of our governmental officials have been greased by the CCP as well. I suspect the money the CCP is paying to derail our President Trump is much less then the tariffs they are paying the USA. Any government official, Professor etc. who takes money from the CCP to undermine our Great country should be kicked out of the USA or thrown in a hard core jail for a very long time. No more foreign students in the USA. Isn’t the daughter of China’s dictator enrolled in Harvard? What a joke.
I agree wiith the comment below, pray and vote. 2 Chronicles 7:14. “If my people which are called by .y name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” we need to pray fervently for our country. Oh, and buy nothing made in China.
Why can’t I share this?
stop eating at Chinese restaurants they could be operated by spys
NFL joined my “never watch list” all they wish to do is cater to the 14 percent. ONLY PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM !!!!!!!!!
Well,
Would someone Please inform Biden? Know his kid is taken care of by China to the tune of last I checked 1 billions dollars(Think Dr. Evil’s kid from Austin Powers). My only question is who would I like to be governed by? China or Russia? Again, I have to choose the lesser of 2 evils. When will our government figure this out? Maybe on a outside chance find someone qualified to run this country. WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY, IDIOTS THAT ARE ALREADY RICH WANT MORE POWER, WHY? We need good, sound, judgement not people that want power or more money for their kids (both are guilty of this, both Biden and Trump). Too bad Patton still isn’t around. Just sayin’
We’ve already stopped MSM propaganda watching. Got tired of taking abuse from an appliance that we house and paying cable bill to propagandize us in our own home, maybe even spying on us.
I hope that AMERICAN voters have enough common sense to see what the Chinese have done to the world with their”chinese virus”.My opinion is that this was done by china with a purpose,on purpose.China should pay and pay dearly.
Shut down China. Prohibit any US company from producing in China. Import nothing from China.
Its all junk anyway. Propose removing China from the UN or better yet, the US should leave the UN.
Stop eating Chinese food. Ban all travel into China.
Shut down China. Stop importing any product from China. Its all junk anyway. Prohibit US companies
from producing in China. Propose removing China from the UN or better yet, the US should leave the
UN. stop eating chinese food. Ban travel into China. Develop an internet that is not available in China.
Get serious. Quit the analysis and consideration of nuance. Its black or white
Apparently many social media outlets are openly working for or in the interests of the CCP. Look at what YouTube is doing when they censor conservative content….how about Twitter? Pintarest? Many others and the actions of good old Mark Zuckerberg has developed a Facebook like CCP friendly app……..how many peoples freedoms are we going to allow these tech giant monopolies to steal? Heck, we are trying to get rid of Tik Tok but there are so many social media outlets out there that are working hand in glove with the Chinese dictatorships. The Muslims should look upon these groups as true enemies after what their Communist Chinese Co Horts are doing to the Muslims that happen to live in China…..not to mention what the Chicoms have done to us Christians……..Google, YouTube and other sites should be broken up just like Bell Telephone was. EVERYONE ended up gaining from that anti monopoly measure.
Why would anyone believe the Chinese Army on social Media?