Reuters-China says US is the true empire of lies
September 30, 2023 2 min 254 words
这篇报道呈现了中美之间在信息操控方面的激烈对峙。中国外交部在反击美国国务院的指责时称美国才是真正的“谎言之帝国”。美国国务院的报告指责中国每年在信息操控方面花费数十亿美元，通过审查、数据收集以及秘密购买外国新闻机构来操控全球媒体。然而，报告中也提到，尽管中国在这方面投入了巨大资源，但在针对民主国家时遭遇了“重大挫折”，因为受到了当地媒体和民间社会的反击。 这一争议表明，中美之间的信息战争已经升级。中国外交部称该报告忽视了事实，本身就是虚假信息，并指责美国国务院是“认知战争”的指挥中心和虚假信息的来源。中国外交部还声称，“事实一再证明美国才是真正的‘谎言之帝国’”。 这种指责和反指责的局面反映了当前国际关系中信息战争的严重性。这也提醒我们在信息时代如何应对信息的流动和操控，以及如何保护言论自由和新闻独立性的重要性。这个问题需要更多的国际对话和合作，而不仅仅是互相指责。
The United States is the true "empire of lies", the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday, lashing out at a U.S. State Department report that accused Beijing of ploughing billions of dollars annually into information manipulation efforts.
China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the U.S. State Department said in the report on Thursday.
Despite the unprecedented resources devoted to the campaign, Beijing had hit "major setbacks" when targeting democratic countries, due to local media and civil society push-back, according to the report, which was produced under a congressional mandate to detail state information manipulation.
The report has disregarded facts, and is itself false information, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The agencies of the U.S. State Department that produced the report "were the source of false information and the command post of 'cognitive warfare'," the Chinese ministry said.
"Facts have repeatedly proven that the United States is the true 'empire of lies'," it added.
The U.S. report comes amid controversy over China's attempts in recent years to increase the global footprint of its government-controlled media. Beijing is seeking to combat the negative images of China it feels are propagated by global media.