China Japan AI Disinformation: China’s Foreign Ministry has objected to alleged use of artificial intelligence (AI) by social media accounts based in Japan to spread misinformation and distort the narrative on Japan’s aggressive stance against China in the run up to World War 2.
Addressing a press briefing in Beijing on July 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded to a question from a reporter with Global Times, a Chinese state aligned news organization, who claimed alleged use of AI by “right-wing” forces in Japan to spread “misinformation” against China, especially related to incidents during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in 1937.
“The right-wing forces (of Japan) have been spreading a wrong perception on history to misguide the Japanese society, in particular, the young generations. Today, the right-wing forces even use the new technology to poison the public opinion for accelerating their remilitarization agenda. Such moves are even more egregious and pose even greater risks. The right-wing forces’ attempts constitute a blatant provocation to the international fairness and justice and the postwar international order, as well as a threat to regional peace and stability. The international community must stay on high alert and firmly reject such moves,” said Mao.
The statement from Mao comes amid frozen diplomatic ties between China and Japan over historical conflicts between them.
In December 1937, during the ongoing Sino-Japanese war, the ‘Nanjing massacre‘ took place where Japanese soldiers committed violent/sexual crimes against Chinese civilians, non-combatants and prisoners of war. The Nanjing incident or ‘Nanjing massacre’ remains a flash-point between the two nations even 88 years later.
According to a Global Times report, AI generated misinformation against the Nanjing incident narrative is being spread by Japan based right-wing forces. The report credits Japanese media organization Asahi Shimbun that had reported in December 2025 that CrowdWorks, a popular Japan based crowdsourcing platform had removed job postings that paid people to use AI to generate smear content
smear content, including material claiming the Nanjing Massacre is a lie.
AI FrontPage cannot independently verify the involvement of “right-wing forces” in the alleged disinformation campaign against China using AI. There has been no official response from the Japan’s Foreign Ministry in this matter.
‘This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials. The truth of history shall not be denied, and the verdict of history shall not be challenged. There are solid evidence of Japan’s crimes on its war of aggression against China,” added Mao.
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