Donald Trump's Wrong: Russia's, Not China's, Influence Operations Are the “the Greatest Cyber Threat" to U.S. Elections," Experts Warn

Cristina Maza, newsweek.com; original article contains links

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[E]xperts note that there has been little evidence of China’s engagement in the type of election interference Russia has been accused of. Over the past year, over a dozen Russians have been indicted for their efforts to influence the 2016 presidential elections.

“When Trump spoke at the U.N. and made this allegation, it was a pretty big surprise for most China watchers and certainly for the Chinese. There is no question that China has public diplomacy here like we do there, and there is no question they have an agenda that's different from ours,” Graham Allison, a political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, told Newsweek. “In the case of Russia's interference, there's chapter and verse, with details, so the claims put out by the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department gives observers reasons to believe that the Russians did something, and it's interference that's unusual.” ...