US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.
I think the point is that the US wanders the world (apart from China), election-meddling and influencing and coup-ing, and then all of a sudden when it happens to us it’s some kind of pearl clutching emergency and crime.
To be clear, I don’t think we should be doing it to other countries, and I don’t think they should be doing it to us. And I think the prospect of another Trump presidency would be so catastrophic for people the world over that it’s worth resisting election interference on his behalf, even if you have no particular love for the US and its little adventures on the global stage. But certainly the US State Department getting upset that someone’s influencing our democracy, even though we don’t want them to, can be met with a certain amount of pure derisive laughter.
I think the point is that the US wanders the world (apart from China), election-meddling and influencing and coup-ing, and then all of a sudden when it happens to us it’s some kind of pearl clutching emergency and crime.
To be clear, I don’t think we should be doing it to other countries, and I don’t think they should be doing it to us. And I think the prospect of another Trump presidency would be so catastrophic for people the world over that it’s worth resisting election interference on his behalf, even if you have no particular love for the US and its little adventures on the global stage. But certainly the US State Department getting upset that someone’s influencing our democracy, even though we don’t want them to, can be met with a certain amount of pure derisive laughter.