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The Chinese Foreign Ministry asserted that the United States has real experience in playing with disinformation and that it is used to using the public opinion machine and its hegemony to distort facts and evade accountability.
Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian as saying at a press conference yesterday in response to a question about the US official's statements at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council that "the US official should have great experience because the United States is a real expert in playing with disinformation." And the Iraq war is an example of this, as the United States
The United States waged that war that lasted eight years and killed more than 200,000 civilians, but Washington, with its monopoly on the source of information, sought to convince the world that its military operation there was clean and responsible.”
Zhao Li pointed out that the United States suppresses the media when it publishes facts, recalling in 2009 when the then-CEO of the Associated Press, Tom Curley, criticized the US administration, saying that it had turned the US military into a global propaganda machine, so a high-ranking US military official threatened to get rid of Curley and the Associated Press.
The Chinese spokesperson added: “In order to hide the atrocities committed by America during the war, the US military invented a whole range of narratives and terms that call civilian victims “collateral damage,” murders as “key operations,” extortion of confessions through torture with “enhanced interrogation techniques,” and murder. civilians to "dispel the enemy".
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