Attempts to "Russian intervention" in the affairs of the United States are only a pale shadow of what China is actually doing, according to American intelligence. About this, as reported by Reuters, is going to announce the vice-president of the United States Mike Pence during a speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington. The agency got acquainted with some fragments of the vice-president's speech prepared for this speech.
“As a senior intelligence official recently told me, what the Russians are doing is just a pale shadow of what China is doing all over the country,” the excerpt says about external interference in US affairs.
The agency quotes Pens with the comment "he will say."
American intelligence has found that China’s activity is aimed at both state and local authorities of the United States, as well as at individual officials, Beijing seeks to use any differences between the federal and local levels in politics, one of the fragments of the speech reads.
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China’s activities are aimed at changing the American perception of Chinese politics, while Beijing mobilizes “secret activists, front groups and propaganda media,” say the authors of the speech.
In addition, Chinese officials are trying to influence business leaders and achieve a condemnation of US trade activities, “using the desire to preserve their operations in China,” the text says Pens.
“In one recent example, they threatened to refuse a license to run a business of a large American corporation if it refuses to oppose the policy of our administration,” says one of the theses of speech.
Another clause is the provision on Chinese "debt diplomacy". Beijing offers hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure loans to governments in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Latin America. “Nevertheless, the conditions of these loans are opaque at best, and Beijing receives benefits in the overwhelming majority of cases,” Reuters quotes one more quote.
President Donald Trump spoke about China’s attempts to intervene in US politics during a speech at the UN Security Council. “Unfortunately, we found that China tried to intervene in the upcoming elections in November 2018,” Trump said at the time, stressing that Beijing had acted against his administration. "They do not want me or we to win, because I am the first president who challenged China in trade," the US president added. Trump said that in the current situation, Washington is beating Beijing over trade.
Moscow has repeatedly rejected all allegations of interference in the political life of the United States.
