Chinese Communist Party leveraging India’s COVID-19 surge to boost its own image, new report claims

Chinese Communist Party leveraging India’s COVID-19 surge to boost its own image, new report claims

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The Chinese Communist Party is leveraging India’s COVID-19 surge to advance its long-running campaign to denigrate democracies and boost its image, according to a new report.

“Even after the Biden administration committed its support to India, China’s state-backed messaging continued to paint U.S. help as sub-standard, hypocritical, and motivated by self-interest,” researchers wrote in the report from the German Marshall Fund.

The report highlights several social media posts from Chinese government officials and Communist-Party-run outlets promoting Chinese assistance to India and portraying the United States as stingy with vaccines and aid.  China’s Foreign Ministry amplified that message during its daily press conferences.