Interesting, didnt know so many here are allergic to negative mentions of china, reacting with bbc flaming. Like cmon its just a dictatorship, accept it.
Not exactly. Some of us would rather first and primarily focus on the disinfo artists who are destroying Western democracies than point the finger at a country that doesn't claim to be free and fair and open.
Pot, meet kettle: from the Wikipedia entry on Britain's GCHQ JTRIG unit: 'The scope of the JTRIG's mission includes using "dirty tricks" to "destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt" enemies by "discrediting" them, planting misinformation and shutting down their communications.'
And: 'In 2011, the JTRIG conducted a denial-of-service attack (DoS) on the activist network Anonymous.[1] Other JTRIG targets have included the government of Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan.[2]
Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...
Edit: See also https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-to-spot-and-defe...
A core part of any domestic intelligence service is having the means to discredit and publically ridicule anyone who has or claims to have such evidence. Asking for it in this context is noble, but should be viewed as fundamentally futile. Either you will not have it, or the people providing it will most likely be crackpots to your perception.
what exactly is the problem with this?
Like hearing oil companies complain about the damage to the environment being wreaked by coal companies.
Or hearing Chinese state media complain about American human rights abuses (which is an example in this article cited by the BBC).