NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (Reuters) – China ran a disinformation campaign to hurt sales of the French Rafale fighter jet after India used the planes in May for the first time against Chinese weapons deployed by its neighbour Pakistan, a bipartisan U.S. commission said this month in a report that the Chinese rejected as false information.
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More than half a dozen countries have bought the Rafale, whose reputation took a hit this year when Pakistan’s Chinese-made J-10 fighter shot down at least one Rafale used by India during a four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
China used fake social media accounts to share AI-generated images as well as video game images of supposed debris of aircraft that Chinese weaponry had destroyed, the commission said in a report to U.S. Congress.
China ran campaign to discredit French Rafale fighter after India-Pakistan conflict, US commission says
