Beijing helps the Kremlin media around the censorship they are subject by buying advertising space on the social networks of which Russian publications are banned.
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The war in Ukraine is a new laboratory of Russo-Chinese cooperation in manipulating information: since the beginning of the Russian invasion, on February 24, the propaganda of Beijing openly makes the short scale to that led by Moscow. In this context, China does not fail to use, in the direction of Westerners, social networks inaccessible to its population, including Twitter and Facebook.
On Twitter, the nationalist daily Global Times, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), has relayed Russian misinformation that President Volodyymr Zelansky had left his country. This was the case, Friday, March 4, with the hashtag #ukrainous. The message resumed an affirmation, false, distributed by the Russian Sputnik agency, which quoted the president of the Duma. On the 26th of February, a tweet accused the Ukrainian head of state for Fui Kiev for Lviv – “Zelensky had already left the Ukrainian capital from yesterday,” Even CGTN, the great Chinese state chain.
On the occasion of this war, “it should be noted the deepening of coordination between the two countries, which have recently learned to be able to reserve in disinformation and to exchange stories, as we have saw in Hong Kong, “says Paul Charon, a researcher of the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM), Coauthor of A comprehensive report on the Chinese influence operations . “The Chinese do not hide anymore, they strongly mobilized their spokespersons and repeats word for word the story and the Russian vocabulary, evoking for example” the empire of the lie “that the United States would be, an expression used by the President Vladimir Putin, “says Charon.
Axios American analysts showed that Beijing had bought, these last days, advertising spaces on Facebook for the benefit of Russia , in order to bypass the censorship of the media Russian state Sputnik and RT on the social network. “Many of these advertisements, mostly CGTN television clips, disseminate pro-Russia and anti-NATO elements and minimize the role of Russia in the invasion of its neighbor,” says Ashley Gold.
“Internal motivations”
Chinese propaganda has also relaunched one of its favorite disinformation operations, consisting of accusing the United States to make biological weapons. “China Presse The United States to reveal the details about the biological laboratories they finance in Ukraine, including the types of viruses stored and the research that has been conducted,” launched, Tuesday, March 8, the spokesman. From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian. The Chinese official news agency, Xinhua, detailed this pseudo-business by quoting the plague, cholera, antrax and rabbit fever. In doing so, Beijing is part of the line of its operation of 2020-2021 on COVID-19: it had accused the United States for making SARS-COV-2 in the Fort Detrick Military Lab – a Manipulation itself copied to that launched by the KGB in 1983 to allow an increase that AIDS was a US creation.
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