this is a general truth - when you open up the newspapers and see headlines blaming things on russia or china, the way to read those newspaper headlines is always to interpret them as a statist tactic to deflect the blame.

so, for example, when the cia rigged the election in favour of trump (the other option was killing clinton. it simply wasn't going to happen.), they then floated fake news through their controlled media outlets - from the new york times to cnn - that would blame it all on russia. this worked spectacularly. rather than serious internal investigations into the relevant intelligence agencies leading to a restructuring and staunch restriction of power, which is long overdue, these agencies need to be seriously overhauled, you had a farcical series of reports trying to blame it on the president, himself. but, the truth doesn't matter to these people. it's all about building a narrative.

and, the fact that it was beyond obvious that the establishment was propping up trump from the start was beyond obvious to any halfways intelligent person is irrelevant. when faced with convincing arguments, they just yell and lie and deflect even louder. cue rachel maddow.

it's not some kind of partisan bickering gone wrong, it's an intentional psy-op to stop you from asking the right questions. was the election rigged? yes. did the russians rig it? no. who rigged it then? the cia. why? because they were afraid that clinton would start a world war. were they going to get caught if people looked into it? yes. so how do you deal with that? you launch a major media operation to blame it on the russians. if nobody asks the right questions, nobody gets the right answers.

has anybody else besides me even suggested to you that it was trump himself that rigged the election? no? exactly.

we'll never get anywhere in overthrowing capitalism, until we understand this basic truth: the media is worse than worthless, in this society. it's a tool of control. you have to be able to deconstruct the lies, and you have to be able to do it on the fly, in real time; media literacy is key. if you don't have it, they'll just keep lying to you, and you'll keep falling for it and we're perpetually fucked. this is so key...

and, that is what this article actually says - it's a (perhaps preemptive.) deflection away from accusations of data falsification in the united states. it says "maybe america is falsifying data, and maybe this is easy to uncover, but we're going to blame it on the chinese to distract from it, so nobody bothers to ask the right questions".