You say “most nations”, but I find it hard to believe that any democratic country would teach its citizens, say, simplified Chinese, and order them to infiltrat

You say “most nations”, but I find it hard to believe that any democratic country would teach its citizens, say, simplified Chinese, and order them to infiltrate Chinese forums and advocate against CCP. Only a regime that doesn’t have to worry about taxpayer’s opinion could afford something like that. Speaking of COVID censorship, any English-speaking report on COVID on YouTube (especially from BBC, where comments tend to somewhat lack energy compared to reports by American media) tends to heavily feature commenters that ignore basic logic and argue that there should be an international investigation of the US for starting the pandemic. I would consider it hilarious but it’s actually scary, a sporadic uncoordinated voluntary expression of approval characteristic to a democratic country can hardly compete with methodical systematic social media and forum warfare.