The basic principle for the CCP is to intimidate the so-called “hostile voices” in our Chinese community. On the other hand, they manipulate information and misinformation—even fake news—on social media like WeChat and TikTok, to spread official propaganda to sidetrack from the core problem.
For example, in the COVID-19 era, they spread the anti-Asian hate campaign. This was a national, even transnational—it was even in the United States—anti-Asian hate campaign, which made the agenda a racial issue rather than a public health issue. During the election period, they coloured the entire opposite views in the Chinese community—that is, anti-CCP action or commentary—as a racial problem, and sidetracked—