{"id":2198977,"date":"2024-03-14T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ordered-cia-to-use-chinese-social-media-to-attack-xi-jinpings-government\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:13:50","slug":"trump-ordered-cia-to-use-chinese-social-media-to-attack-xi-jinpings-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ordered-cia-to-use-chinese-social-media-to-attack-xi-jinpings-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump directed the CIA to launch a social media offensive against Xi Jinping&#8217;s administration using Chinese platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-ordered-cia-to-use-chinese-social-media-to-attack-xi-jinpings-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2198977&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Unfolding the Digital Offensive: Trump&#8217;s Covert Ops\u200c on Chinese Social Media<\/h2>\n<p>Emerging from the shadows of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-deports-runaway-us-soldier-after-he-broke-the-law-there\/\" title=\"North Korea expels US soldier who violated their laws.\">diplomatic encounters<\/a>, a \u2064story surfaced\u200d in 2019 that shattered regular\u2064 perceptions: <b>President Donald Trump<\/b>, adopting an aggressive\u2062 posture, directed the <b>Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)<\/b> to \u2062pierce through China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-cyber-command-reinforces-ukraine-and-allies\/\" title=\"U.S. Cyber Command Reinforces Ukraine and Allies\">digital domain<\/a>. This wasn&#8217;t merely a\u2063 nudge against the \u200cGreat Wall \u2063of\u200b China; it was \u2062a full-fledged \u2063campaign \u200bstrategically waged on the Chinese government through the very veins of \u200bits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-review-texas-and-florida-social-media-laws\/\" title=\"Biden administration seeks Supreme Court review of Texas and Florida social media laws.\">social \u2062platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The intelligence agency formed an elite cadre adept \u200dat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cyber-experts-blast-biden-white-house-for-suggesting-private-companies-might-consider-paying-ransomware-demands\/\" title=\"Cyber Experts Blast Biden White House For Suggesting Private Companies Might Consider Paying Ransomware Demands\">digital warfare<\/a>, their\u200d weapon of\u200d choice being Chinese social media, to erode the narrative surrounding President Xi Jinping and his\u2063 authorities,&#8221; revealed Reuters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These cyberspace warriors were\u2064 not hacking systems but perceptions, shaping a\u2063 series\u200b of adverse dialogues about the current power echelon. Critiques leveled \u2062against the administration were just the tip of the iceberg as <b>the operatives\u2063 laid bare \u2064secrets and accusations across the \u2062Chinese social spectrum<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>Operatives Under False Cover<\/h3>\n<p>The art of deception didn&#8217;t end there\u2014crafty and calculated, \u2062the operatives donned\u2062 digital masks, <b>acting\u2064 under false cover<\/b>.\u2064 Despite \u2064weaving a web of narratives, these stories weren&#8217;t spun from thin air; they \u200bwere anchored in reality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Party officials allegedly\u200d pocketing \u2063fortunes and spiriting them away? Check.<\/li>\n<li>Projects\u2062 reeking of corruption and extravagance? Highlighted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stratagem was \u2064clear: instigate \u2064a \u2064climate\u2063 of distrust, prompting the Chinese leaders to chase mirages\u2063 and phantoms,\u200c inadvertently depleting\u200b their resources in\u2064 the relentless \u200dquest. This digital onslaught\u200b was more than mere provocation\u2014it was \u2062psychological warfare crafted to\u200c trigger paranoia.<\/p>\n<h3>Loosening the Reins on Cyber Operations<\/h3>\n<p>This offensive was but \u2062a ripple in\u2064 the larger tide, unleashed a \u2064year following Trump&#8217;s clandestine\u2062 directive to \u2064 <b>ramp up\u2062 covert cyber activities<\/b> against not just China but other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/g20-summit-five-burning-questions-as-biden-fills-void-left-by-xi-and-putin\/\" title=\"G20 summit: Biden steps up as Xi and Putin step back\">global players<\/a> like\u200c Iran, Russia,\u200d and North\u2062 Korea. \u200cThe mandate was unprecedented,\u2063 granting the CIA liberties far \u2062beyond former limitations.<\/p>\n<h3>A Global Game of Shadows?<\/h3>\n<p>As this revelation unraveled, the \u2063spokespersons from opposing frontiers stood their ground. The CIA stonewalled with\u200c silence, while China&#8217;s Ministry of\u2063 Foreign Affairs castigated the operation \u200das a <b>tactic\u200d to manipulate\u200b global narratives<\/b>. Was it really a case of using \u200b&#8217;media platforms as weapons&#8217; as\u2064 they proclaimed?<\/p>\n<p>The skein \u2064of cyber skirmishes woven into\u200c the fabric \u200dof U.S.-China relations raises myriad questions\u2014most pressingly, the ultimate impact of such a campaign. And as the torch was passed \u200dto President\u200c Joe Biden, the world is left wondering: did this digital gambit persist beyond \u200cthe Trump era?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a \u200dtale that flows \u200bseamlessly from cyber espionage novels, \u2063yet it is the reality \u2064we navigate\u2014a stark reminder that the battles of tomorrow are fought not just on physical fields but in the\u200b boundless realms of the internet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>For a\u2062 deeper dive into\u2062 the chronicles of\u200b these \u2063digital exploits,\u2062 the original report \u200dawaits your perusal\u200c over\u200d at the Washington \u200bExaminer.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Trump commanded the CIA to target China&#8217;s government via local social media, deploying a team to disseminate adverse stories about President Xi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2699,"featured_media":2198978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/896358ed6a2546fd5a552eb639db6b01.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/896358ed6a2546fd5a552eb639db6b01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}