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no bull and the aftermath.

The goal here isn't necessarily to reach me.

I doubt most Americans have even seen a lot of the content we've been discussing or are

aware of it.

But it's to give legitimacy to the conversations the China wants to have and it's to make the

world appear a certain way to their own audience.

Whether that's people living in China or the Chinese diaspora, they want the West to

look somewhat less legitimate than they would otherwise and make their own forms of government

and their own economic systems appear better.

You never want the grass to be greener on the other side for your own people.

And I think this was true with Chinese and Iranian and other states as well.

I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast February 2, 2022. You might have noticed

a strange story in the New York Times last month about Western's running YouTube accounts,

promoting tourism to China and also certain narratives favorable to the Chinese government.

The YouTube accounts are a part of a broader network of accounts on Twitter, on YouTube

and on other social media, promoting messages sympathetic to the Chinese government.

To talk through the news story and what to make of the accounts, I sat down with one of

the stories authors, Paul Moser, a reporter at the New York Times, and Darren Linville,

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