China Adopts Kremlin's 'Information War' Tactics  

China is taking a page out of the Kremlin's playbook and is seeking to highlight America's faults and weaponize the culture wars and identity politics currently buffeting the West, according to disinformation analysts.

Much like the Kremlin and state-owned Russian media, Chinese propagandists are focusing on the problems of racial injustice and income inequality in the U.S. and Western Europe — a move to distract attention from Beijing's own rights abuses, including the internment of more than a million ethnic Muslim Uyghurs, analysts say.  "Civil unrest in the United States following police violence against African Americans has been used to counter criticism of police abuse against [pro-democracy] protesters in Hong Kong," according to a recent study by the Atlantic Council, a U.S.-based think tank.   "China's disinformation efforts are becoming more sophisticated," added Dexter Roberts, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative and author of the report, "China's Disinformation Strategy."