As for that one particular CNN article, I question it highly. Either the quality or quantity of the event is highly distorted, or important facts are obscured. This is the standard play, CNN is a propaganda outlet and the US has approved 1.6 billion dollars exclusively for anti-PRC propaganda.

Sorry missed this one part.

Yeah in a vacuum I definitely disagree with this, but to some extent it feels somewhat similar to the usage of chemical weapons in WWI.

If one side is gonna use it, it’s just the world we live in that everyone is going to try to use it.

We act more or less peaceful face to face, only choosing to fight each other through proxy wars, but Israel, the US, China, Russia… everyone appears to be actively fighting an information war online, hacking and spying on everyone else with no remorse.

It seems at this point the only way to stop it would be to come to international agreement it’s off the limit for everyone and jointly sanction whoever is caught doing it, but I think we all know that’s never going to happen.

The information war is simply bad for democracies with freedom of speech and just not bad at all for authoritarian governments who censor vast swathes of the information their citizens have access to.

I’ve met more with Xi Jinping than any other world leader has. When he called me to congratulate me on Election Night, he said to me what he said many times before," the president said on Friday. “He said democracies cannot be sustained in the 21st century, autocracies will run the world. Why? Things are changing so rapidly. Democracies require consensus, and it takes time, and you don’t have the time.”

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-naval-academy-speech-china-democracy-warning-1710966