US Deals with Allies Signal Concerns Over China's Disinformation Campaign

China's President Xi Jinping sits next to other world leaders during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in California, Nov. 16, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden, right, greets China's President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, California, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' week, Nov. 15, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Western foreign policy experts are welcoming recent U.S. agreements to jointly tackle foreign disinformation with Seoul and Tokyo, saying they are needed to counter Chinese efforts to undermine liberal democracies through the spread of fake news.