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Beijing resorts to Jedi mind tricks to avoid a crisis it can't afford to fix
Rather than deploy taxpayer funds to bail out China’s debt-addled economy, Beijing has apparently decided it can achieve the same results more cheaply using agitprop.
Authorities have launched a counteroffensive against what they call “cognitive warfare” by the West against China’s economic confidence. Western politicians and news outlets, Beijing’s mout…