‘China ran campaign to hinder Rafale sales post Indo-Pak conflict’

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.

- Asian News International

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.”