Beijing ‘weaponized’ roaming elephants, says Aussie newspaper… that helped deploy the ‘propaganda’ against its readers

The media craze

The media craze about a herd of elephants roaming Southern China is actually part of a “global image war” waged by Xi Jinping’s government against the free world, an Australian newspaper has suggested.

The story of more than a dozen elephants wandering hundreds of kilometers from their usual habitat while Chinese officials scramble to keep them away from major cities made its way across traditional and social media this month. While some see it as nothing more than a short-lived tale about majestic animals and clueless humans, a trained eye can apparently see something sinister behind it.

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