{"id":143859,"date":"2020-05-05T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-says-doubts-over-findings-led-to-softer-china-disinformation-report\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:00:13","slug":"eu-says-doubts-over-findings-led-to-softer-china-disinformation-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-says-doubts-over-findings-led-to-softer-china-disinformation-report\/","title":{"rendered":"EU says doubts over findings led to softer China disinformation report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EUs diplomatic service toned down criticism of Chinese disinformation following doubts about whether some findings were justified or ready for publication, a senior official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The European External Action Service (EEAS) in late April <a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/eeas-special-report-update-2-22-april\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a report on \u201cnarratives and disinformation\u201d around the coronavirus pandemic that was notably softer than a previous leaked version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-and-china-promote-coronavirus-conspiracy-narratives-online-says-eu-agency\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by POLITICO. Most strikingly, references to China running a \u201cglobal disinformation\u201d campaign and Chinese criticism of Frances reaction to the pandemic were absent \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/parliament-grills-borrell-over-handling-of-china-disinformation-report\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prompting accusations<\/a> that Brussels watered down its criticism in response to Chinese diplomatic pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a live-streamed event, Lutz G\u00fcllner, the head of the EEAS strategic communications unit that drafted the report, stuck to his institutions line of defense that Brussels did not bow to Chinese pressure but that there had been two versions of the document, one internal and one public, which do not necessarily have to include the same content.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcllner said some differences between the public and internal reports followed doubts about whether the EEAS analysts had drawn the right conclusions based on the information they gathered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The public report] is quite close to what we have also told our colleagues [internally]. Only a few things have been taken out, of which we were perhaps not entirely sure: Is it really justified to call it disinformation?\u201d G\u00fcllner said at the discussion organized by the German state of Hesses representation to the EU, adding: \u201cEverything we write in our public reports must be watertight.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The public EEAS report names \u201cRussia and \u2014 to a lesser extent \u2014 China\u201d as the main culprits behind disinformation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be careful \u2026 not to lump information activities or hyper-information activities together with disinformation, and then you are no longer able to clearly say: who is actually doing what?\u201d he went on, suggesting an effort to distinguish the degree of Beijings activities from those led by Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>While Russia was still responsible for \u201cthe lions share\u201d of disinformation targeting EU citizens, G\u00fcllner said, his team had registered \u201cmore and more Chinese activit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-watered-down-controversial-china-report-following-doubts-about-findings\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EUs diplomatic service toned down criticism of Chinese d..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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