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After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, although the United States did not directly intervene militarily, the "public opinion war" with Russia was fierce, and even spread from Western social media to Chinese social media.
According to the Global Times, on the 16th, the US Embassy in China posted Chinese on Weibo through its official account, claiming that Russia controls the state media, suppresses independent media, and spreads "false information" about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, so as not to let the Russian public know the truth.
Soon, the U.S. Embassy in China posted a Chinese with the topic word "English learning", which seemed to want to teach Chinese netizens to learn the English word "Disinformation". Finally, the U.S. Embassy gave an example sentence, "This is the kind of disinformation that we have seen repeatedly used by Russia, which Russia has tried to use to justify its appalling behavior in Ukraine." ”
On the 17th, the Russian Embassy in China forwarded the above-mentioned first post issued by the US Embassy, reprimanding the United States, the European Union and Canada for banning the "Russia Today" TELEVISION station, as well as Western Internet giants such as Google blocking Russian media. The Russian embassy also stressed that the Western crackdown on the Russian media has been going on for several years and is not only beginning now.
Finally, the Russian Embassy issued a soul-torturing question to the United States, "What else do you have to say about freedom of speech, about people's freedom of access to information?" ”
The US and Russian embassies have Chinese and they have exchanged insults over the air, as if they want Chinese netizens to comment on it. In this regard, some netizens have expressed their own opinions. Someone below the U.S. embassy post, quoting The Western international relations scholar Edward Hollett Carr, commented, "We should be clear that the United States is a master artist who uses the cloak of goodness to cover up their selfish national interests." ”
More people directly sarcastically said, "The United States is really brazen, and the thief shouts to catch the thief." "Why did the U.S. media ban Accounts in Russia?" "A naked man also laughs at others for wearing less."
For the US embassy to teach Chinese netizens to learn the term "false information", many netizens reminded the US side that former US Secretary of State Pompeo once personally said a sentence, "We lie, we cheat, we steal." We also have a course dedicated to teaching these. ”
In the comment area of the Russian Embassy's post, some Chinese netizens said that the Russian side hit back beautifully, and they also wanted to ask the United States what qualifications they had to talk about "freedom of speech." Some netizens said that they should not immediately go to the hall to evaluate and evaluate.
This is not the first time that the United States and Russia have "matched the line" on Chinese social media. Earlier, after Putin announced the recognition of the independence of Uzbekistan and Eastern Europe, the embassies of the United States, Britain, France and Ukraine in China have used Chinese condemnation on Weibo, while Russia has successively issued articles to state its position.
At that time, the five countries were afraid of each other in the air, and once rushed to the hot search list. Many Chinese netizens lamented that it is really "a long time to live", Weibo has become an "international court", welcome to The Chinese social platform to reason.
Whether it is the United States, Russia, Ukraine, or some other European countries, they all want to win international public opinion, and the Chinese social platform has become a good place for them to "reason". However, what the United States should understand is that on the Chinese social platform, it is not who is loud and high-pitched, who is reasonable, Chinese look at the merits of the matter itself.
In fact, this also reflects from one side that as China's voice and influence in the world gradually increase, China's public opinion field is becoming more and more influential.