Intelligence community is twisting the facts again.
"4/ But even as the Trump administration tries to equalize the Russian threat with the Chinese one, look at what the WSJ reports as to the Chinese activities: they are "public-facing," "[not] covert," and largely an effort to "deflect criticism of China." Seems *different*, right? "
5/ The WSJ continues, noting China wants to "shape the US policy environment"—and is doing so in a way "increasingly critical of the administration's COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston consulate, and actions on other issues." That seems like normal activity from China?
6/ So what gives? Russia is waging cyberwar on us; Trump's intelligence community is permitting a framing that may cause some to lump the "China threat" in with the Kremlin one; but when we look at their respective activities, China's doesn't even read like election interference?
I'm not sure how they would conclude China would like Biden, since Trump keeps TPP from being a reality, and it's painfully obvious that they can buy him. It's silly, too, how it's being equivocated, since China isn't interfering like Russia has and is. There are also a few anti-Iran allies (MBS, MBZ, and Netanyahu) that are pro-Trump, but won't be reported on. Iran obviously wants Biden, but that's for super obvious reasons.
18/ It's also not surprising *how* Iran is doing it, because it's an *identical method* to how MBS, MBZ, and Israel illegally interfered in the 2016 election on Trump's behalf: "through" (writes the WSJ) "an online influence campaign that includes disinformation on social media."
19/ So if Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel interfered on Trump's behalf in 2016—which they did, though the U.S. counterintelligence community *refuses to release its report on it*—why in the *world* wouldn't they do so again in 2020, indeed *more so* to counter Iran's operation?
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