[pydry]

The Chinese have done stuff like this for years.

If your immediate reaction to that is "no but actually they just want to substitute American propaganda for their own" then youre closer to understanding the EU motives than you realize.

[sagman]

Agreed. But in the western media they are not depicted as similar to the CCP. Maybe because compared to CCP they are terrible at it. At least the Chinese policies gave rise to homegrown giants like Baidu, Alibaba and more recently Bytedance.