FBI wants to prevent financial warfare and a disinformation campaign that could trigger a market collapse to influence voters
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expanding efforts to counter foreign election meddling by targeting China, a state engaged in aggressive operations aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election.
“Make no mistake, China is aggressively pursuing foreign influence operations,” said Nikki Floris, deputy assistant director for the FBI’s counter-intelligence section.
“They use economic levers, [and] their end goal is really to unseat us as a global economic superpower.”
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WNU Editor: I have always said that when it comes to election interference, China is the 800lb gorilla in the room. Russia may have spent a few thousand dollars on Facebook ads to create a social media disinformation campaign and/or post embarrassing and revealing emails on Democrat corruption in their primary process in 2016. But China .... they play with billions and they have massive resources when it comes to influencing foreign elections, a fact that Australia recently learned from their election earlier this year .... Australian intelligence reportedly concluded that China was responsible for a major hack on Australia's parliament in the lead up to its most recent elections (Business Insider).
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