“What a wonderful Russia!” How propaganda in China works for Putin
With the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war of the Kremlin, the Chinese media, controlled by the CCP, are increasingly creating a positive image of Vladimir Putin and all foreign policy actions for their internal significance. This is happening despite clear disagreements between Moscow and Beijing, such as during the latest meeting between Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan, and China’s refusal to directly and openly support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Since February 24, the Chinese Communist Party has had a large ideological focus, aimed mainly at Chinese officials and youth, the essence of which can be summarized as follows: “Our country will not turn away from Russia, no matter what she does.” Support for pedestrians in Moscow on footpaths.
On September 15, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were registered in Samarkand for the first time with significant winters at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan. During a conversation with the PRC chairman, Putin said he understood China’s “concern” about the “Ukraine crisis” and the highly balanced “China’s perception value.” He also spoke out in support of China, condemning “the provocations of the US and its satellites in the Taiwan Strait.” it sounded like a complaint and the arrival of the fact that no possessions were found in Moscow from its largest and most powerful “partner”.
Xi the great Jinping, in turn, said in Samarkand that China is ready “together with Russia, take on the role of its power and play a leading role to ensure stability and positive energy in the world.” He also noted that he cherishes “Russia’s commitment to the use of one China.” But in all of his remarks, Xi Jinping never even mentioned the word “Ukraine” at all. Most Sinologists familiar with the intricacies of official Chinese political rhetoric agree that these words of the PRC representative should be interpreted as an implicit reproach loyal to Putin.
For example, Sergei Radchenko, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named after Johns Hopkins, is sure that Xi Jinping’s words are a neat “criticism of Russia that it does not have great power and instability in the world that hinders China.” Even Shi Yinhong, a political science professor at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, who usually broadcasts the CCP’s official line, savethat it was “Comrade Xi’s most cautious and delayed communication for the latest points about serious relations between China and Russia.”
But, one way or another, the People’s Republic of China still adheres to a neutral position regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine, Chinese state propaganda is working according to a preliminary forecast plan. According to a US State Department report, senior CCP officials and Chinese media actively disseminate the Kremlin’s point of view on the normal situation, including disinformation about the incidence, incidence or still allegedly observed in conditions of increased danger of military personnel. Russian invasion of Ukraine in China also called exclusively “special military operation”.
At the same time, which is very important, as growth, for example, in an interview newspaper The Washington Post Bret Schaefer, one of the first “Alliance for Democracy” German Marl Foundation, broadcasting Kremlin propaganda in China helps to stay in the global information field of the federal media, against the adoption of a strict order in the West.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry also continues to accuse the Kremlin’s supporters of Western countries of unleashing this war. “NATO role should be considered, which Alliance took part in resolving issues of international security and in the Ukrainian crisis,” event in a tweet Chinese Foreign Ministry as early as April 1.
When, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha at the end of March, hundreds of murdered Ukrainian citizens were found on the streets and in mass graves, posted a tweet, which stated that the bodies of those killed “were “ordered” by the United States in order to later blame Russia.” CGTN also circulated the Kremlin’s version that the railway station in Kramatorsk came under fire from the Ukrainian military, not the Russian military. As a result of shelling on April 8, more than 50 people died there, including five children. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian recently revisited said several timeswhich is consistent with the occupation of the territory of Ukraine by certain “US biolaboratories”, where research is being conducted “directed against the Russians.”
Chinese universities in recent months lessonsto give students a “correct understanding” of the Russian-Ukrainian war, during which the “grievances, emergency situations of Russia by the West” are emphasized. “It was in connection with the expectation of a personal one that the fuse of the loss of the fire between Russia and Ukraine was lit,” – story in a series of editorials in the publication “Jiefangjun bao” (“Daily Newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army of China”).
Last spring, for all the CCP present, the meeting from the district committees, the party and the assembly for the deputies of the National People’s Congress behind closed doors screening was organized commissioned by the president, probably the Communist Party documentary “Political Nihilism and Soviet Collapse” is that in Russia Vladimir Putin is hailed as a hero. “Humiliating questioning of the Soviet Union,” an announcement in this issue, was “the result of a US investigation to ban its capture.”
This movie praises Putin as a great leader and military leader “returned to the Russians for their patriotic pride in their past.” The 101-minute documentary event, which was completed last year, of course, does not mention the war in Ukraine, but the thesis is often heard that Russia is right to “worry about neighbors that broke away from the Soviet Union.” Vladimir Putin on the rapid disappearance of toxins from the Soviet Union.
You can see it in its entirety by following this linkand some excerpts can be seen here:
“The most powerful weapons that contain the West are non-nuclear bombs and missiles, the methods it uses in its ideological struggle,” the host says, quoting a well-known Russian pro-Kremlin historian. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a statement in France, “Some countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus have become the leading positions of the West to interfere in the affairs of Russia.”
The collapse of the USSR in this lesson was presented primarily to Chinese leaders and officials so that they “do not be tempted by Western liberalism.” The authors emphasize that China should never follow the same course as the recently deceased last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched perestroika, initiated glasnost and engagement with the West.
Interestingly, back in 2013, another very similar documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union was filmed in China by order of the CPC Central Committee, preaching to the Chinese (and foreign) audience a clear and ideologically verified interpretation of those events. It blames the collapse of the Soviet Union on exceptional “political liberalization”, especially what Beijing recognizes as “historical nihilism”, and highlights all the “mistakes” made by the CPSU. For example, rock music and contemporary Western fashion are conditioned by the “symptoms of the moral rot” that corrupted the USSR.
This movie on YouTube:
The authors also accuse some Russian and Western historians of fabricating data on the many millions of victims of Stalin’s repressions, and say that Stalin was a great growth that led his country to prosperity.
At the end of the film, Vladimir Putin is praised as a politician who “restored the spirit of Russia.” The President of Russia is shown marching with everyone at the Immortal Regiment parade, and young Russians are kissing banners with his portrait. The previous Soviet leaders, above all Mikhail Gorbachev and Nikita Khrushchev, are depicted as fools and deceivers, “bewitched by the song of lilac liberal reforms and the superiority of the West.”