US President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the United States’ international broadcasting agency pledged on Thursday to sharpen its media challenge to China , including by expanding into short-form videos, podcasts and diaspora group chats. “China is rapacious and it is expanding all of its propaganda efforts,” Rogers said. “Chinese adversarial propaganda is a problem, and combating it has been a cornerstone of my public diplomacy strategy.” But Rogers would inherit an agency weakened by the Trump administration’s own efforts to dismantle much of its operations last year. At the hearing, Rogers claimed that Chinese propaganda increasingly promotes leftist anti-colonial narratives and antisemitism through automated or semi-automated social media accounts that coordinate to spread disinformation.