Speaking to the third Summit for Democracy in Seoul, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that China has twisted the global information environment. Peter Kagwanja, president of the Africa Policy Institute in Kenya, refuted this by saying that the Chinese have to tell their own stories, and they are not misinforming but are instead countering lies with facts, adding that the West monopolizes the lies and the tools of disinformation and misinformation.