Chinese state media support russian disinformation, in particular, regarding the murder of Ukrainians in Bucha.
This is reported by The New York Times.
”When Twitter put up a warning message atop a russian government post denying civilian killings in Bucha, Ukraine, last week, China’s state media rushed to its defense”, - the newspaper said.
Frontline, a Twitter account associated with China’s official English-language broadcaster, CGTN wrote that mfa rf got censored.
The Newspaper of the Communist Party of China published a text claiming that the Russians offered "irrefutable evidence" that the gruesome photos of the bodies on the streets of Bucha were a hoax.
A party TV station in Shanghai said the Ukrainian government had created a terrible picture to win sympathy in the West. "Obviously, such evidence will not be accepted in court," the channel said in a statement.
The editor of the Chinese Daily newspaper, which is owned by the Chinese government, retweeted a post saying there was no evidence of a massacre in Bucha. He also accused the West of "staging atrocities to stir emotions, demonize opponents and prolong war."
Chinese diplomats also often repeat the theses of russian propaganda, the New York Times notes. “In fact, its diplomats and official journalists have become combatants in the informational war to legitimize russia’s claims and discredit international concerns about what appear to be war crimes”,- says in the publication.
The New York Times also writes that russian and Chinese state media use comments from the same group of Western "opinion leaders", who claim that the United States is to blame for Russia's war against Ukraine. The wording in the media of both countries is almost identical.
“After YouTube banned RT and Sputnik, two russian television channels, for content “minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events,” both RT and Frontline accused the platform of hypocrisy,- the publication said.- They did so using the same videos of former American officials, including President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joking about weapons, drones and the killing of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan leader”
To remind, The Chinese Communist Party is waging an ideological campaign among officials and students that portrays russia as a long-suffering victim, not as an aggressor, and defends Beijing's strong ties with moscow.