China said the US should cease producing and disseminating misleading information and stop boasting about its “kingdom of lies.”
Because the US government is the world’s largest distributor of disinformation, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said it was reasonable for the Disinformation Governance Board formed by the US to be delayed, at a news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.
He claims that while US officials are full of lies, it is the people who pay the price for the US’s deception.
Zhao cited several instances, including one in which the US sparked the Iraq war by presenting a tube of white powder as evidence of WMD in the country, resulting in the deaths of up to 250,000 Iraqi civilians.
According to Zhao, the US utilised bogus intelligence collected from a White Helmets-staged video as evidence and carried out the “most precise airstrikes in history” in Syria, killing over 1,600 innocent civilians.
In 2003, George W. Bush’s administration used bogus evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq. As a result, troops were trapped in the war-torn country for nearly a decade, and hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of the lengthy warfare.
Airstrikes that have killed people across Syria in recent years have been described by the US military as “legal.”
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US administration downplayed the virus’s urgency and continued to circulate misleading information about the disease’s source.
The misinformation campaign about the pandemic was named the “Lie of the Year 2020” by a US-based website, according to Zhao, who said the US has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, with more than one million innocent American people have lost their lives.
The more the US government lies, the greater the damage to its credibility, the Chinese official said.
On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal of coordinating “countering misinformation related to homeland security.” The Biden administration tapped Nina Jankowicz, a well-known figure, as the board’s executive director. Just three weeks after its announcement, the DHS paused the board’s work on disinformation and accepted the resignation of its leader.
