Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui and his affiliates are just using Singapore as a means to an end of promoting their wider narrative, which is pushing an agenda against China’s Communist Party, observers told CNA.
potential hostile information campaign, but just “collateral damage” in his attacks against the Chinese government, said analysts., with account restriction directions under the Foreign Interference Act .Guo and his affiliates
While videos about Singapore’s politicians could be aimed at influencing the local population, it could also be designed to spread disinformation to others outside of Singapore, he said. One of Guo’s affiliated organisations, the New Federal State of China, is a right-wing political and lobby group created together with former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
“It is basically linked to Lawrence Wong coming in and taking power. I think there's no other major event,” said NUS associate professor of political science Bilveer Singh. “So I think it's quite a targeted, deliberate, calculated move to test the waters.”from his predecessor Lee Hsien Loong on May 15 this year.
They also strategically capitalised on the intense geopolitical rivalry between the US and China, to run the narrative that the CCP does have ambition beyond China and that Singapore is in China’s orbit, he added.
He said that a lot of the platforms that capture people’s attention are non-mainstream because “they are very sexy much more juicy news come from them”. However, it is still significant as it is one of several calibrated tools within FICA to deal with this type of threat, said Assoc Prof Tan.“Some people might regard Guo as having no intentions towards Singapore. But that misses the point that Guo and his affiliates have no compunction about using Singapore,” noted Assoc Prof Tan. “Any self-respecting state cannot allow themselves to be used.”
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