Misinformation casts shadow on US-China trade truce

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The serious confrontation between the United States and China entailing a series of retaliatory high tariffs has finally abated.

Misinformation casts shadow on trade truce

Panic-buying Chinese goods to bot-driven attacks on United States brands, a tide of misinformation is casting a shadow over a temporary trade truce between Washington and Beijing. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

Frequent purchases for fear of tariffs, revelations of secrets about luxury brands, misleading headlines: a torrent of misinformation fuels the trade war between Washington and Beijing despite the truce. The world’s two largest economies agreed in mid-May to suspend for 90 days the tariffs imposed on each other, after 48 hours of talks in Geneva. But on social networks, including Douyin and Weibo in China, an increase in falsehoods fuels the ant…

Washington, United States. Frenetic purchases for fear of tariffs, revelations of secrets about luxury brands, misleading headlines: a torrent of misinformation fuels the trade war between Washington and Beijing despite the truce.The world's two largest economies agreed in mid-May to suspend for 90 days the tariffs that were imposed on each other, after 48 hours of talks in Geneva.But on social networks, including Douyin and Weibo in China, an i…

An increase in social media disinformation derived from US tariffs to China fuels the commercial tension between the two countries.

Social networks are flooded by a torrent of false news about tariffs.