collapsedsquid:

I believe that the Chinese government think that the Uighur nationalism issue has been stoked by the US, which is an interesting parallel to the “Russian bots” issue.

And then there’s the “Rohingya as poor refugee victims and not rightfully repelled hostile invaders” issue, who knows where the government of Burma thinks that comes from.

People hoping to tame social media back towards Official Narratives for the sake of maintaining national security and social integrity really haven’t grappled with that example enough