WASHINGTON: A new US assessment on Wednesday claimed that China “initiated a disinformation campaign” after the India-Pakistan conflict in May to hinder sales of French Rafale aircraft in favour of its own J-35s, using “fake” social media accounts.

A report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated, “Following the May 2025 India-Pakistan border crisis, China initiated a disinformation campaign to hinder sales of French Rafale aircraft in favour of its own J-35s, using fake social media accounts to propagate AI images of supposed debris from the planes that China’s weaponry destroyed.”

Further, the report added that the Chinese Embassy officials “convinced Indonesia to halt a purchase of Rafale jets already in process, furthering China’s inroads into other regional ac

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