China’s role in the rise of anti-Semitism has been under-emphasized since Oct. 7, and it is getting more sophisticated and targeted in a way that guarantees Beijing has no plans to let up.
China’s three-pronged strategy starts with the easy one: social media. As Aaron Keyak, one of the State Department’s officials monitoring global anti-Semitism, told Josh Rogin in January, Chinese users of social media see what the government wants them to see. Thanks to the tight regime of CCP censorship, China can spread whatever internet wildfires it wants whenever it wants—but that also means Beijing has forfeited any plausible deniability of its role.
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