Since at least 2016, foreign interference in American elections and civil society have become central to American political discourse. The issue is taken extremely seriously by the U.S. government, which has levied sanctions and called out foreign adversaries for sowing “discord and chaos” through their propaganda efforts.

But apparently Washington takes a different view when it comes to American propaganda operations in foreign countries. On Monday, the House passed HR 1157, the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund,” by a bipartisan 351-36 majority. This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, among other purposes, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally. That’s a massive spend — about twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN. If passed into law it would also represent a large increase in federal spending on international influence operations. While it’s hard to total all of the spending on U.S. influence operations across agencies, the main coordinating body for U.S. information efforts, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), has an annual budget of less than $100 million.

There is obviously no issue with the U.S. government presenting its own public view of what China is doing around the world, and doing so as forcefully as needed. But this bill goes beyond that by subsidizing “independent media and civil society” and other information operations in foreign countries. Indeed, this is already routine. The Global Engagement Center, which will likely play a strong role in implementing the bill, spends more than half its budget on such grants, and USAID, which will also play a lead role, makes grants to foreign media and civil society organizations a key part of its efforts. HR 1157 would supercharge these programs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/house-...eas/ar-AA1qp59U

Probably how YouTube channels like China uncensored China observer get their funds

Waste of money lol.

Don’t need that China claiming against all their neighbours already sour their relationship with other nations.

1.6 billion, easy money printing there, Uncle Sam.

If only they use that amount of money to solve unemployment, education of their citizens.

If only.

Last year 500mil, this year 1.6bil. Serpentza, laowhy and falungong pancutz liao

It will encourage more channels like this to appear like mushrooms in the internet. More anti-China contents to shore up the sentiments

K/ sub sub contractors happy liao....

Syukur, easy money for grifters these next few years.

Sinophobia on steroids

America's enemies

Red Indians, nazis, nippon, communists, Soviets, Al qaeda, Iran, Hamas, huawei, Chinese. The list goes on & on

Politikus pass the shxt bill to get the budget for their 'buddies' in GEC. This is the main purpose (not anti-China).

As the normal public are ignorant, politikus can label the bill as anti-china bla bla bla, coz ppl wouldn't question much. For those who question this, they will kena labelled as wumao or commie sympatizer.... sound familiar? It works especially in democratic system as majority ppl are ignorant.

This post has been edited by 70U63: Sep 17 2024, 03:58 PM

Wow... incredible. Imagine our gomen allocate 1 billion to mobilize gomen depts to specifically oppress the nons and promote anti-nons agenda.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Sep 17 2024, 03:58 PM

Ada satu xxx got more than 1bil for....

meow kata u jangan meow...

people here got into the payroll or not? untunglah big budget more money

US too pussy to take military action against china, only can spend 2B to badmouth others lol

Biro Tata Negara - hold my teh tarik

Bajet 2025

1) 10 billion targeted for bumi empowerment
2) 100 million targeted for the nons
3) 1 billion to spearhead projects to educate the nons regarding why the bumis needed that 10 billion.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Sep 17 2024, 04:30 PM

amdk here get paid or not?

1MDB case revealed RM300 million was used for such purpose, isn't it?

USD1.6 billion for propaganda. Who's the communist now?

Falungong enjoice