This is how China manufactures the narrative of Vladimir Putin's "just war"

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Updated Tuesday, March 29, 2022-02:12

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On Thursday, while in Europe it was remembered that just a month ago Russia had begun

in China they highlighted that 23 years ago NATO bombed the former Yugoslavia.

A matter of priorities for the Chinese state agency Xinhua, which was the first to take on the task of reviving the shadows of the Atlantic alliance just as its leaders met in Brussels and pressured Beijing to focus on playing an active role in mediation to achieve a ceasefire.

China did not even wait to hear the slap on the wrist from NATO for its continued

The media controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anticipated the reprimands and filled columns with opinions from the most nationalist academics so that the Chinese public would be clear that this summit in Brussels was nothing more than a ruse to fan the flames of the Ukraine crisis.

These exact words appear in a headline in the

the most noisy English-language tabloid outside of China.

"23 years ago, NATO began its 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia that killed thousands of civilians. It is no coincidence that NATO chose its summit this year on the same date to strengthen its military deployments and further arm Ukraine on behalf of of peace, which is truly ironic and hypocritical",

Professor Yang Jin

released in the pages of the

"NATO clearly aims to push Russia to its limits. I think Moscow's military operation is a reaction to this pressure exerted by Western countries for a long time, which shows that Russia could not tolerate it anymore," Yang justified. , who is a researcher at the Institute of

considered by many international analysts to be the main and most important

in China and the largest in Asia.

It is the great academic research institution in the second world power, totally aligned with the interests of the Chinese Government.

The CASS, established in 1977 by reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, is affiliated with the State Council.

It has 42 research institutes spread throughout the country and more than 3,000 associates.

Its current president is a powerful economist and politician with a CCP card named Xie Fuzhan, who was the governor of Henan province and director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and the Research Bureau of the State Council.

The last time Xie was seen in public was a couple of months ago at a forum on Chinese democracy, another of the many events held in Beijing in those days in an attempt to reformulate the concept coined by the Greeks.

"Chinese democracy has successfully blazed a new development path in the history of world politics and made contributions to the progress of human political civilization," Xie said.

Complaints about NATO expansion

Returning to Ukraine, a country that did function as a parliamentary democracy, most CASS experts have followed the Chinese Government's inclination towards Russia, constantly backing its complaints about NATO expansion, not condemning the invasion, not even referring to her as such, and buying all the Machiavellian theories without evidence that the Moscow media have been coming up with.

Beijing censors have tried for the last month to erase any criticism of that internal position.

Five Chinese history professors called on President Vladimir Putin to stop the war.

A leading academic, Hu Wei, vice president of a government public policy research center, urged an end to support for Russia.

All those voices were quickly silenced while giving free rein to many other academics and opinion leaders who see the war as a US-instigated plot to weaken Russia, strengthen NATO and

Zuo Dapei, an economist at the Chinese academy, justified Russia's actions.

"They are fair because they go against NATO," Zuo wrote last week.

"We, the Chinese people, should express the strongest call for justice on behalf of all the oppressed peoples of the world: NATO should be dissolved. Down with NATO!"

"If NATO continues its expansion to threaten Russia, and the United States continues to escalate tension with sanctions, arms supplies and military deployments, no one can promise that the conflict will be mediated in an effective and informed manner.

and use the situation to further legitimize its military presence in Europe," says Lü Xiang, a researcher at the CASS Institute of American Studies.

In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin moved quickly Thursday to respond to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's warning that China is supporting Russia politically, including by spreading lies and disinformation.

"To resolve a crisis, we must be calm and rational,

replied Wang, who in turn accused Stoltenberg of "spreading disinformation."

Chinese academics, faced with mounting pressure from the West for Beijing to mediate with its ally Russia, have been analyzing China's role in the war for weeks.

"Russia is China's strategic partner, while Ukraine is also a friend. Russia's move should be blamed from a moral perspective, but based on China's national interest, it makes no sense for Beijing to condemn it," the researcher analyzes. Cheng Yijun, who recalls previous conflicts led by Russia, such as the 2008 war with Georgia and the 2014 invasion of Crimea, in which China maintained

without supporting any country.

This week there was a strange case of online censorship of an article authored by China Strategy experts, a website backed by CASS academics, which argued how the war in Ukraine was a strategic opportunity for China.

"The longer the fight continues, the more it will exhaust Europe, the United States and Russia, and in general

read a note that bet that China would remain on the sidelines until the best conditions were given to emerge as a legislator in a new world order.

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