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China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday denied what it called “vague accusations” of Chinese interference in this weekend’s Taiwanese elections. The election will be closely watched as a measure of President Tsai Ing-wen’s political strength and Taiwan’s ability to resist intense pressure from mainland China.

Vice President Mike Pence detailed intelligence discoveries Monday evidencing Chinese attacks on the U.S., using a multi-pronged approach to exert influence in American public opinion ahead of the 2018 and 2020 elections.

The U.S. Ambassador to China and former Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad accused Beijing of using American press to spread propaganda after they placed an ad in Iowa’s Des Moines Register urging the U.S. to end the ongoing trade war between the two countries.

Parents in a Sacramento, California suburban school district were shocked this week to discover that Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Party candidate for governor in November, was portrayed in a first-grade textbook as a “champion for people’s rights.”

Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black (R-Loudoun) has been accused of regurgitating Syrian propaganda by saying in an Arab TV interview that he believes British intelligence is preparing a chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians, which it will then blame on dictator Bashar Assad as a pretext for military action.

Facebook has closed a number of “inauthentic” pages linked to Iran which attacked Brexit and Israel and supporting Jeremy Corbyn and Scotland separating from the United Kingdom — but the political establishment and broadcast media have remained remarkably quiet.

The People’s Republic of China has waded into the 2018 midterm elections, producing a propaganda video that focuses on the hardships of California farmers in the midst of a trade war between the two nations.

The city of Changchun in northeastern China offered an unusual “gift” to the Communist Party on its 97th birthday: a train festooned with quotes from President-for-Life Xi Jinping and crewed by rappers who preach Xi’s ideology to the beat of bamboo instruments.

Communist China’s navy released a propaganda video showing off its naval capabilities in frustration over America’s decision not to invite Beijing to the annual U.S.-led Pacific joint military drill and “naval keg party,” known as the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPCA), Task & Purpose reported this week.

Not only has North Korea canceled its annual month of anti-American rage this year (or at least toned it down quite a bit), but visitors tell reporters this week that America-bashing merchandise is disappearing from souvenir shops despite their status as perennial bestsellers.

The way our immigration laws are currently constituted, they provide for two enforcement options: full enforcement or no enforcement. For the safety of our children, no enforcement is not an option.

Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that geopolitical experts are trying to guess the meaning of tears shed by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in a documentary video. Kim purportedly wept because he was frustrated with the slow pace of economic reforms in his country.

The diplomatic thaw between North and South Korea led to the highly publicized dismantling of propaganda loudspeakers along the border this week, but the U.S. State Department promised on Wednesday that the effort to bring “independent information” to communist North Korea will continue.

A newly launched exhibition in Rotterdam showcases how Steve Bannon’s artistic work in film and culture “first foreshadowed, then shaped, the core narratives of Trumpism.”

VARSOVIE, Poland — Two Holocaust survivors and a Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter have filed a lawsuit against the publisher of books praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a civil case that the plaintiffs’ lawyers said on Monday is the first of its kind in Poland.

One of the leading figures in Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela has claimed that the U.S. dollar “does not exist” and has no real financial worth.

The Chinese Communist Party announced this week the creation of a universal propaganda arm named “Voice of China,” which the regime hopes will “ensure its voice is heard loud and clear around the world.”

A fascinating New York Times article on “deepfake” technology published on Sunday made it clear that artificial intelligence is already raising concerns about propaganda, identity theft, and national security not easily addressed. Even in its infancy, A.I. already has the power to ruin lives and perhaps destabilize nations.

The South Korean government is debating a proposal to bill South Korean taxpayers almost $3 million to cover the cost of North Korea’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

TEL AVIV — Despite its continued weakening position in Syria and near-complete removal from Iraq, the Islamic State terrorist organization has disseminated propaganda photos showing IS police beating a Syrian resident of accused of selling cigarettes.

NBC’s Lester Holt was duped by the North Korean government into spreading fake news about a local ski resort, reports Yahoo News.

Facebook and Google are countering “extremist” content on their platforms with counter-propaganda, according to a report.

Just 105 Russia-linked Twitter accounts posted about Brexit in the run-up to the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), researchers at Oxford University have found.

The saga of Australian Senator Sam Dastyari, whose career has been severely damaged by allegations of improper contact with a Chinese billionaire, reached Washington, DC this week as a bipartisan U.S. commission investigated Chinese political influence around the world.

Turkey’s Culture Minister Numan Kurtulmus reported to his parliament on Tuesday that some 140,000 books have been removed from libraries for “including propaganda of FETO.” FETO stands for Fethullah Terrorist Organization, which is the Turkish government’s name for followers of exiled imam Fethullah Gulen.

Use alternative ‘clean’ energy or a hideous monster will eat you. This is the heartwarming green message aimed at winning the hearts and minds of young children in the animated Netflix series ‘The Magic School Bus Rides Again.’

The New York Times has made a string of bizarre efforts to rehabilitate the image of brutal Communist regimes during the past few weeks, earning particular mockery for asserting on Monday that China’s mass-murdering Communist revolution had a bright side because it “taught Chinese women to dream big.”

GENEVA (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Switzerland on Thursday announced indictments of the leader of a prominent Swiss Islamic group and two other top members over alleged al-Qaida propaganda videos posted on YouTube. Contacted by phone in Bangladesh, one of the suspects rejected the case as “politically motivated.”

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times is applauding the communist government in a column published Monday for its “fair” organ transplant system, in an article titled “Sound Legal System and Fair Distribution in China’s Organ Transplant Hailed by International Community.”

Islamic State terrorists released a video this week celebrating the van attack in Barcelona, Spain, and threatening to conquer all of “al-Andalus,” the Arabic name for what Islamic State terrorists see as Muslim Spain.

The second part of a British drama set in the Islamic State shows the jihadist territory’s enemies slaughtering infants and features a piece-to-camera in which the ‘strong female lead’ urges viewers not to “find fault” with the caliphate but to help “improve” it.

The European Parliament has produced a slick propaganda video claiming Europe “need[s] people to come here… to maintain the level of our welfare systems”.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have added a new email subscription service to their “virtual caliphate” as part of their efforts to disseminate propaganda and news updates about the terrorist group’s ongoing operations.

Bob Dreyfuss’s profile of White House aide Sebastian Gorka in Rolling Stone is an impressive feat of scholarship, compiling every lie about the former Breitbart News editor in one place.

A documentary series praising the reforms and leadership of President Xi Jinping is airing on Chinese state television in a bid to improve his public image ahead of a key Communist Party conference this coming autumn.

North Korea’s latest issue of postage stamps may be full of “bold, bizarre, and in some cases extraordinarily mundane designs,” as CNN puts it, but two of the stamps are especially noteworthy for their anti-American images.