World Unprepared for Fight Against Chinese Disinformation Around Elections, Warns Analyst

NEW YORK—The world at large isn’t prepared for the pervasive disinformation operations coming from adversaries such as China that aim at swinging votes, warned a research analyst. If countries “calculate how much those people—[Russian President Vladimir] Putin, Xi Jinping—how much money and effort they are investing in those information operations, do the math, and then calculate how much money you’re putting into defense in a society,” the conclusion is “you are not prepared,” Wu Min-hsuan, CEO of Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab that focuses on digital defense, told The Epoch Times. “Nobody’s prepared for that,” he said, describing the campaign as one of the Chinese regime’s “war tactics.”...