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China Conducting ‘Race-Baiting’ Social Media Campaigns to Polarize Americans: Former CIA Officer

China Conducting ‘Race-Baiting’ Social Media Campaigns to Polarize Americans: Former CIA Officer
A protester is holding a “defund the police” sign at a Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan on July 13, 2020. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times
Andrew Thornebrooke
Andrew Thornebrooke
National Security Correspondent
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Kevin Hogan
Kevin Hogan
10/11/2022|Updated: 10/16/2022
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China’s communist regime is using social media to weaponize racial enmity in the United States, according to a former intelligence officer.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is actively working to erode trust in the U.S. political system and to increase political polarization among Americans by inflaming racial tensions on social media, according to Nicholas Eftimiades, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank.

Andrew Thornebrooke is a national security correspondent for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master's in military history from Norwich University.
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