Actually, no. While China absolutely spies on other nations as well as infiltrates social media, they don’t try to cause rebellions. I’m saying this BECAUSE of what western media has uncovered about China’s influence campaigns in the US. We’ve uncovered Russia doing exactly this in our elections, but every single one of the articles about China’s influence campaigns have all pointed to China simply advertising visiting China and promoting Chinese products.

There’s a good reason for this and it underlines the differences between US and China’s views of the world. China, unlike pretty much every other country doesn’t care what your country does or who rules it. They have no moral lines to cross or care about conflicts in other nations. AS LONG AS CHINA CAN CONSUME ALL YOUR RESOURCES, China’s totally happy for you to be whatever the fuck you want to be. Thus, China doesn’t try to manipulate votes in other nations. Arguably this is also why USA is terrified of China. In a Chinese ruled world, there could be chaos essentially everywhere except China. No world police, no effective sanctions, just business with China.

So, it’s not that China wouldn’t or couldn’t do something like this, it’s just not in their current interests. That could change, that probably will change, but at the moment that’s how China is acting. Also, I’m not trying to say USA or China is good or bad, both have their good and bad sides and effects. What I am saying is China’s version of world governance is so vastly different from the US that this is where the conflict really lies.