PUBLISHED October 8, 2023
China is strengthening its manipulation of public opinion overseas, including the spread of disinformation, in order to create an international environment favorable to itself. Japan, the United States and Europe should work together to maintain a free and open international order.
The Chinese administration of President Xi Jinping is placing the highest priority on Taiwan as a target for the manipulation of public opinion. This is probably because it is necessary to cultivate public opinion in favor of China in order to achieve Beijing’s long-cherished goal of China-Taiwan unification.
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SOURCE: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/yomiuri-editorial/20231008-141786/
RELATED: China sends 4 military aircraft and 1 ship, Taiwan flies Black Hawk for typhoon disaster relief on Orchid Island
No trace of PLAAF aircraft crossing median line or entering southwest ADIZ
Taiwan Air Rescue Group flew a UH-60 Black hawk to Orchid Island for disaster relief after the typhoon. (MND photo)
PUBLISHED October 7, 2023
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s defense ministry tracked four Chinese military aircraft and one naval vessel around the country between 6 a.m. on Friday (Oct. 6) and 6 a.m. on Saturday (Oct. 7) after Typhoon Koinu left a trail of destruction.
The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said four People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) military aircraft and one People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessel were detected. It said the illustration of the flight paths was not provided as there was no trace of PLAAF aircraft crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait or entering the southwestern sector of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ).
The defense ministry added it monitored the situation with its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system. In response, it scrambled combat patrol aircraft, dispatched naval vessels, and deployed land-based air defense missile systems.
Meanwhile, the country’s Air Rescue Group flew a UH-60 Black Hawk to Orchid Island after the typhoon swept southern Taiwan. It took Taipower engineers “to restore local infrastructure.”
“There’s more than one way to protect the lives of our citizens, and we gladly put our capacity to good use,” the defense ministry said.
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SOURCE: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5015566
RELATED: China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat
PUBLISHED September 26, 2023
In july one of Taiwan’s top newspapers, United Daily News, published a story based on supposedly leaked minutes from a secret government meeting. America had asked Taiwan to make biological weapons at a lab run by the island’s defence ministry, the report claimed. Taiwanese and American officials denied it. The allegedly leaked minutes, it transpired, were not written in the usual style of Taiwanese government records. They were filled with official-sounding phrases that are used in mainland China, but not in Taiwan.
This was probably Chinese disinformation, Taiwanese officials said. Yet the story spread to Taiwanese talk shows and influencers. It soon evolved into a wilder claim: Taiwan was going to collect 150,000 samples of Taiwanese blood and hand them to the Americans, so they could develop a virus to kill Chinese people.
