China spends billions on pro-russia disinformation

The US believes China spends billions of dollars to spread "poisonous disinformation," including messages that are completely aligned with russia on Ukraine.

James Rubin, a coordinator for the Global Engagement Center, a US state department body set up to "expose and counter" foreign propaganda and disinformation, says this during a European tour this week.

"The well has been poisoned by Chinese and Russian disinformation – it's pernicious," Rubin said.

Rubin said that russia and China spend billions of dollars to manipulate information. The coordinator of the Center for Global Interaction added that Beijing operates on a global scale and spends more than moscow.

China, he claimed, was "repeating and promulgating the arguments of russia about the war that it was started by Nato."

"We as a nation and the west have been slow to respond, and it is a fair judgment that we are facing a very, very large challenge," he told reporters. "In the communication space, the alignment between China and russia is near complete."