This is the correct solution of winning the moral high ground.
What Russia has been doing for several decades (see Yuri Bezmenov [1])
is leveraging the "west's" inner discontent. Every time a Watergate or
Snowden happens it's a gift to them. It exposes our 'hypocrisy', and
failure to live up to our own democratic standards. That fuels the
narrative of the western nations as corrupt.
We're in a bind because the kind of medicine that would fight the even
more sophisticated Chinese tactics now would also hurt our own
corporations and agencies. But we must take it. Targeted advertising
and domestic surveillance must go if our values are to survive in the
world.
This is the correct solution of winning the moral high ground.
What Russia has been doing for several decades (see Yuri Bezmenov [1]) is leveraging the "west's" inner discontent. Every time a Watergate or Snowden happens it's a gift to them. It exposes our 'hypocrisy', and failure to live up to our own democratic standards. That fuels the narrative of the western nations as corrupt.
We're in a bind because the kind of medicine that would fight the even more sophisticated Chinese tactics now would also hurt our own corporations and agencies. But we must take it. Targeted advertising and domestic surveillance must go if our values are to survive in the world.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov