China’s media realities clash over truth about war in Ukraine – By Frederik Kelter (Al Jazeera) / Apr 1 2023
Pro-Russia and anti-Western media coverage hampers Chinese public’s understanding of the reality of war in Ukraine.
More than 10,000 Chinese people were in Ukraine when Russia invaded on February 24, 2022.
The “no-limits friendship” Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping announced between their countries three weeks before the invasion did not prevent Chinese people from suddenly finding themselves in a war zone.
Though the Chinese leadership appeared to have been as surprised by Russia’s invasion as the rest of the world, that shock did not translate into a condemnation of Moscow’s actions, either then or now.
Days into the invasion, China’s state newspaper, the People’s Daily, published a message on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, in which Beijing’s embassy in Kyiv called on its citizens in Ukraine to unite amid the deteriorating situation.
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