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What China’s Social Media Is Saying About Ukraine

8 points by gamechangr 5y ago

livinglist 5y ago
as a native Chinese, I’ve seen so many disgusting comments over the warfare from China, Weibo (china’s version of Twitter) keeps ranking posts talking positively about Russia to the top and on TikTok (China has its own server which is isolated from rest of the world) people are saying things like how Ukraine and US was at fault for the war and how Putin is a real man standing up against west.
scrubs 5y ago
By any measure Russia is the laggard in that part of the world. Forget the US. Just think about how countries do for themselves. China, Japan, South Korea, Tiawan, Singapore, Vietnam have all found a way to go forward post WWII. Russia is still stuck on the file labeled pre-WWII and worse they like that file. Here's a true story. I worked in former east Germany after the collapse of the wall. Upon entering I ran into an amazing amount of interest in a nobody (me) that seemed vaguely like intelligence or politics snooping. Looking back it was in over my head outside my gig. At any rate I visted what looked like a university that had a bar or some such across the street. Out of sheer curiosity I went in for a beer knowing no German. After I stuck out like a sore thumb I attracted several locals taking German/Russian. The first thing they did was remind me with a puppet show of fingers of how our V2 was shot out of the air (powers 1960 incident). After the wall down... and that's what's on the brain? Here's what we could have talked about: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/summary/ See literature prize. I've read that book twice but stopped 60% of the way through both times. It's depressing, and yet profoundly interesting.
throwaways85989 5y ago
Headline Correction - what the censors allow to flourish on chinese social media. So social media always expresses only what the state allows to express. Its in no way representative of the population.

8 points by gamechangr 5y ago

as a native Chinese, I’ve seen so many disgusting comments over the warfare from China, Weibo (china’s version of Twitter) keeps ranking posts talking positively about Russia to the top and on TikTok (China has its own server which is isolated from rest of the world) people are saying things like how Ukraine and US was at fault for the war and how Putin is a real man standing up against west.

scrubs 5y ago

By any measure Russia is the laggard in that part of the world. Forget the US. Just think about how countries do for themselves. China, Japan, South Korea, Tiawan, Singapore, Vietnam have all found a way to go forward post WWII. Russia is still stuck on the file labeled pre-WWII and worse they like that file. Here's a true story. I worked in former east Germany after the collapse of the wall. Upon entering I ran into an amazing amount of interest in a nobody (me) that seemed vaguely like intelligence or politics snooping. Looking back it was in over my head outside my gig. At any rate I visted what looked like a university that had a bar or some such across the street. Out of sheer curiosity I went in for a beer knowing no German. After I stuck out like a sore thumb I attracted several locals taking German/Russian. The first thing they did was remind me with a puppet show of fingers of how our V2 was shot out of the air (powers 1960 incident). After the wall down... and that's what's on the brain? Here's what we could have talked about: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/summary/ See literature prize. I've read that book twice but stopped 60% of the way through both times. It's depressing, and yet profoundly interesting.

throwaways85989 5y ago

Headline Correction - what the censors allow to flourish on chinese social media. So social media always expresses only what the state allows to express. Its in no way representative of the population.