China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says
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Xi Jinping told an EU leader that the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, per the Financial Times, amid increasing tensions.
    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      It’s amazing that this gets any downvotes at all.

      Washington Post 1991: Innocence Abroad: the New World of Spyless Coups

      "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees [NED cofounder Allen] Weinstein.

      New York Times, 1997: Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.

      The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.