{"id":53859,"date":"2022-10-26T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53859"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:17:34","slug":"pro-china-group-casts-doubt-on-us-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53859","title":{"rendered":"Pro-China group casts doubt on US political system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-China disinformation campaign known as Dragonbridge has been aggressively\u00a0<a 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