New Delhi/IBNS, Nov. 19 -- China mounted a coordinated disinformation campaign after India's Operation Sindoor, aiming to undermine global confidence in Rafale fighter jets and promote its own J-35 aircraft, according to the annual report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission submitted to the US Congress.

The report states that Beijing deployed fake social media accounts to circulate AI-generated and video game-derived images portraying fabricated "debris" from Indian fighter jets supposedly shot down during the May 7-10 India-Pakistan clash.

The Commission says the objective was to damage French defence exports and advance China's own military sales.

It notes that Chinese Embassy officials persuaded Indonesia to paus...