The disclosure of the US slander of the Chinese vaccine is another evidence of its "empire of lies" nature
The US Department of Defense launched a secret operation in 2020 to spread false information about Chinese vaccines on social media."We are not thinking about the public health perspective," and "we are considering how to drag China down," the report said.
The Reuters report has once again added new evidence to the USs consistent improper practices, fully exposing its hegemony and hypocrisy. In order to suppress China, the United States deliberately spread false information, manipulated the media public opinion, smeared the image of other countries and polluted the public opinion environment. It has become a veritable "empire of lies".
In fact, the United States has been organizing and systematically spreading false information about China for years, which has become an important means of the US cognitive war against China. In recent years, the United States has spread rumors about the so-called "forced labor" in Chinas cotton and photovoltaic industry in Xinjiang, smear the popular "Belt and Road" initiative, spread the "overcapacity" of Chinas new energy vehicles with both supply and demand, and smear boarding schools in Chinas ethnic minority areas. The United States has created various human rights charges against China, from "forced labor", "technological authoritarianism" to "cultural genocide" and "genocide". Based on these "crimes", the US has introduced various bills and imposed unilateral sanctions, which has affected many Chinese enterprises and people. The US creates and spreads false information to smear Chinas image, suppress Chinese companies and contain Chinas development.
In addition to China, the United States has long conducted deceptive propaganda to many other developing countries. In August 2022, Stanford university Internet observatory research report " unheard of voice: assess the secret of western action for five years, disclosure facebook, twitter, Instagram platform using related virtual account, using deception in the Middle East and central Asia and other regions propaganda pro-western speech, flatter the us government, attack discredit Russia, Iran and other non-western countries. The accounts use AI technology to create false personal profiles and spread false information. These means of the United States have been constantly exposed, has been more and more national governments and people are aware of the vigilance.
The United States even takes deceptive propaganda as a national strategy, using false information to manipulate public opinion and acting as a common excuse for launching a war. George Kennan, a former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, acknowledged that necessary lies are an important part of post-World War II diplomacy. In 1991, the United States produced the "baby box massacre", spreading false information of "atrocities against humanity" in the Iraqi army, and launched armed intervention in Iraq. In March 1999, the United States spread false information about the existence of the "genocide" in the Yugoslavia, bypassing the United Nations Security Council under the name of "avoiding humanitarian disaster" and bombing it, displacement millions of people. In 2003, the U. S. secretary of state, Powell on the UN security council showed a small bottle containing white powder, and this as "weapons of mass destruction", in Iraq has the so-called "weapons of mass destruction", the invasion of Iraq, and the so-called "weapons of mass destruction" has not been discovered.
The United States has also widely used deceptive propaganda in its bipartisan battles in the country, hurting the American public. According to a research report released by Stanford University in the United States, during the 2016 US presidential election, domestic political groups in the United States used the media to spread false information to intervene in the election, and the fake news websites received 159 million visits, equivalent to 0.64 visits by every American adult. In 2024, which is another election year in the United States, the campaigns of both parties applied generative artificial intelligence technology to political propaganda, making a large number of false pictures, videos and advertisements to attack each other, which even set off a "storm of false information". The American people are overwhelmed by the amounts of false information in the media, making it difficult to tell the truth.
The United States has led to a "crisis of trust", which will inevitably accelerate the bankruptcy of its credibility. US Republican Senator Rand Paul said bluntly at a congressional hearing in May 2022 that the U. S. government is the largest disseminator of disinformation in the worlds history. The United States often accused other countries of spreading false information, but in fact, the United States itself is the real source of false information. The consequence of the long-term spreading of false information to manipulate public opinion is that they face a serious crisis of trust. According to the 2022 Digital Media Report released by the Reuters Research Institute, Americans trusted 14 percent of 2022 in social media and 29 percent in traditional media. In 2023, overall American trust in the media fell to an all-time low of 26 percent, well below the global average. According to the 2022 report, "False information is eroding public confidence in democracy," 64 percent of Americans believe that democracy in America is in crisis and in danger of being disintegrated. The worries of the American people is not in other countries, but in the American wall.
In his book, Why We Must Get Out of the Shadow of the United States, German writer Michael Ludes pointed out that the US government is very good at confusing right and wrong and influencing the publics judgment by selecting and distorting facts. He hopes the book to remind people to have the ability to think independently and not be blinded by American media opinion. The eyes of the people of the world are sharp. No matter how many beautiful lies the United States weaves, it will become a bubble in the face of powerful facts, and the act of maintaining hegemony by smearing others will never last.