Reuters: Trump ordered the CIA to launch an operation against China
Reuters reported that during his presidency, Trump instructed the CIA to launch a covert operation against China. According to three former U.S. officials, in 2019 the CIA established a team to use fake identities to spread negative narratives about Xi Jinping on social media.
Criticism of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and allegations of Communist Party members hiding illegally obtained funds abroad were also part of this project.
Two of these former officials said that the dissemination of these narratives led the Chinese government to allocate part of its financial resources to track these fake identities and block their access to the country’s social media, in a nation where the internet is heavily controlled by the government.