World Unprepared for Fight Against Chinese Disinformation Around Elections, Analyst Warns

Election interference is part of the Chinese communist regime’s strategy to win a ’smokeless war‘ by ’weakening the enemy from within,' one expert said.

Wu Min-hsuan, CEO of Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab, at a press conference about Chinese election interference in Taiwan elections, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 19. 2024. Sung Pi-lung/The Epoch Times

NEW YORK—The world at large isn’t prepared for the pervasive disinformation operations coming from adversaries such as China that aim to swing votes, a research analyst warns.

“Calculate how much those people—[Russian President Vladimir] Putin, Xi Jinping—how much money and effort they are investing in those information operations, do the math, and then calculate how much money you’re putting into defense in a society,” Wu Min-hsuan, CEO of Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab, told The Epoch Times.