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Tuesday, May 08, 2018

White House Counters China’s ‘Orwellian’ Disinformation Aimed at Americans

The White House for the first time has pushed back against Chinese information warfare and propaganda in denouncing attempts by Beijing to impose political correctness on Americans and U.S. companies.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement issued Saturday that President Trump ran against political correctness during the presidential campaign and is opposing "efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to impose Chinese political correctness on American companies and citizens."

"The United States strongly objects to China’s attempts to compel private firms to use specific language of a political nature in their publicly available content," Sanders said.

"We call on China to stop threatening and coercing American carriers and citizens," she added.

The unprecedented White House comments against Chinese government pressure related to an April 25 statement sent to 36 American and foreign air carriers by the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration demanding changes in describing three geographical areas.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The world has allowed Communists to gain too much influence when we should have been stamping them out like roaches. I seriously think fatal discrimination should be allowed against communists and, well, any group that seeks one party political power and domination of others.