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> I wonder to what extent China is actually unhappy with the war, and to what it feels it cannot publicly support it. They publicly support it: https://www.nyt

> I wonder to what extent China is actually unhappy with the war, and to what it feels it cannot publicly support it. They publicly support it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/business/china-russia-ukraine-invasion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/business/china-russia-ukr... > As the world overwhelmingly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese internet, for the most part, is pro-Russia, pro-war and pro-Putin. The Chinese internet doesn't get any way without the consent (and perhaps encouragement) from the authorities. What they don't censor is sometimes as important as what they do censor.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
While that me be true, Chinese sentiment is already fairly pro Russian built up from many years of propaganda. They could stop censoring the internet tomorrow and public sentiment would still be overwhelmingly pro Russian and anti American. They censor the internet more aggressively for local issues or because they want to manipulate public sentiment in some way that is more guiding rather than drastic (eg get a bunch of people to protest the Japanese embassy in Beijing…and then get them to go home when that gets out of control).