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"COVID-19 part of China’s ‘stealth war’ against the United States: retired USAF general"
"The coronavirus pandemic is part of the 'stealth war' that the Chinese Communist Party has been waging against the United States by infiltrating its democratic institutions and undermining its political and social culture, a retired U.S Air Force general and China expert warned. 'The coronavirus revealed an entirely new threat to Americans for the first time,' retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding told a virtual summit on the pandemic last month. 'It’s a very subtle and it’s a completely different kind of threat to our national security,' Spalding said during the Truth Over Fear Summit... The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views the United States as its 'main adversary,' not because of its nuclear arms but because 'we have a constitution … designed to separate power in the United States to ensure no one person, group or party could gain ultimate power, and to recognize that the highest form of tyranny in the world is totalitarianism,' he pointed out. Beijing fears that the Chinese people will 'someday awaken to the potential of humanity as defined by our Declaration of Independence, the preamble to the Constitution, our system of institutions and rules and protections for civil liberties,” and so is actively seeking to “erode our nation from within.'... The CCP’s ability to control the narrative within China has been 'primarily increased through the use of Western technology,' which has also, along with its increased ties with the West, allowed Beijing to exert control over the narrative in the outside world. 'After the end of the Cold War, and certainly when China was brought into the World Trade Organization, their ability to use business, finance, and information to extend this influence and control beyond their borders is what we are dealing with today in the coronavirus,' Spalding said... Other clues that the CCP used the pandemic 'as a mechanism to weaken the West and really increase its relative strength' were the 'disinformation campaigns' Beijing orchestrated in the aftermath of the pandemic, the retired general said. These included 'social media campaigns' that claimed the coronavirus did not start in China, and those that stoked fear and panic and 'certainly encouraged countries to lock down their economies,' Spalding observed. 'These are all components of a social media campaign that saw 40 percent of social media posts surrounding the coronavirus as bots, basically automated algorithms, that were designed to essentially throw gasoline on the fire, which was panic,' he said. The pandemic was followed by 'riots and looting' with “again, social media coming from bots that was antagonizing and adding to fuel to that fire... he contended. 'If you go back and study the method of warfare of the Chinese Communist Party and recognize that it’s political, it’s psychological, it uses media, it uses all elements of connectedness to essentially control the narrative, then you realize that we created the perfect society, global society, to enable the spread of that narrative,' he said. He elaborated on the 'stealth war' China has been waging against America for years... 'Not only are our universities and schools now teaching ideas like critical race theory, like socialism, like applied postmodernism, but they’re also infiltrated by a number of Confucius Institutes,' he noted. 'When you get right down to the heart of it, critical race theory, post-modernism, applied post-modernism really has zero difference from the way the Chinese Communist Party runs their society,' Spalding told Coffin. That is, 'the narrative is what determines what you know and what you think.' The CCP also realized that 'Silicon Valley created this enormous engine for individual influence in these large tech companies.' It has adopted these practices and 'built essentially competing tech companies' to Google, Amazon and Facebook, these being BeiDou, Alibaba, and Tencent, respectively, as well as exporting such products, such as video sharing network, Tik Tok. 'Beidou, the main search engine in China, is curated for what the Chinese Communist Party wants you to see,' he told Coffin. 'What you have begun to see here in our society is a realization that our search results in Google are similarly curated for what Google wants you to see, and it’s not necessarily always purely related to economic benefit for Google, it’s also related to their social and political world view,' Spalding said... 'People have been so cowed and they’re so terrified of confronting it directly when it happens that … they self-censor,' Spalding said. 'We have to confront it. … Where evil exists, if you don’t confront it, it will grow, and that’s, I think, our biggest challenge today.'"
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