The orders came out clear – as a message quickly deleted from Horizon News, a Beijing News social media account, mistakenly revealed: “Posts unfavorable to Russia or pro-Western should not be published.” Last week, for example, while the rest of the world saw real images of besieged Ukrainian cities and the massacre left by Russian forces in their passage – the 45-foot trench filled with corpses of civilians in Butsa and all the corpses that defile the city – H China’s People Daily shared a video on the social networking platform Weibo, “showing” Russia providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians outside Kharkov. More than 3 million people watched this bull. From the beginning, Chinese networks reinforced Russian misinformation, citing false allegations by Russian officials that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had left the capital and that Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered on the first day of the invasion. And the Chinese Phoenix TV has published reports while it was with Russian troops outside the most devastated Mariupol, with civilians who were supposed to be welcoming the Russian forces. Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion at all, instead claiming that the United States and NATO are responsible for Putin’s war. Xi Jinping even told President Joe Biden that the US and NATO are “the essence” of the problem. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, says China is responsible for a major cyber-attack on Ukraine’s military and nuclear facilities, with thousands trying to hack into more than 600 websites belonging to the Defense Ministry in Kyiv and other institutions. Perhaps this was a boon to Russia for delaying the invasion until the end of the Beijing Olympics, as Xi allegedly demanded. In addition, Putin and Xi declared their best friendship on February 4, the day of the start of the Olympic Games, announcing in a joint statement of 5,000 words: “Friendship between the two countries has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas. of the cooperation.” For now, at least, the invasion has awakened the West to Putin’s true nature. But people still have to admit that Xi is just as much an enemy of civilization.
