After some Russian media were "banned" by the United States and the United States rebuked Russia for "suppressing the media," the Russian Embassy in China and the U.S. Embassy in China directly "pinched" them with Chinese on Sina Weibo.
On the afternoon of March 17, the Russian Embassy in China issued a letter countering the remarks of the US Embassy in China that the Russian side had "suppressed independent media", throwing out examples of Russian media being suppressed by the US side such as "Russia Today", and questioning the US side: What else do you have to say about freedom of speech and people's freedom to obtain information?
On March 16, @U.S. Embassy in China posted on Weibo that Russian "controlled" media had spread "false information" about the Russo-Ukrainian war to the audience, and that "the Kremlin has intensified its suppression of independent media and prevented the Russian public from knowing the truth."
In an article titled "Russia Suppresses the Media to Cover Up the War in Ukraine," @U.S. Embassy in Beijing said that "new restrictions in the Kremlin have forced most independent media outlets in Russia, both domestic and foreign, to shut down or suspend operations," adding that "Russian authorities have also tried to block or completely block Facebook and Twitter."
A day later, the remarks were refuted by the Russian Embassy in Beijing.
On March 17, @Russian Embassy in China posted that the United States, Canada, and the European Union had removed "Russia Today" from broadcast networks, Apple and Google app marketplace removed "Russia Today" and the Russian Satellite News Agency apps, and YouTube blocked Russian media channels around the world.
The Russian Embassy in China said: "The Western crackdown on the Russian media did not start now, but has been going on for several years." ”
The operation of the US and Russian embassies in China to use Chinese "start a war" has also caused some netizens to sigh: To be reasonable, it is necessary to go to China's social media.
Just yesterday (March 17, Beijing time), Cinny Maxwelly, the global vice president of public policy at Twitter, said that Twitter is tagging tweets that share links to Russian official media articles and is taking measures to reduce the spread of these contents, since February 28, 61,000 tweets have been flagged, and the number of related content reads has decreased by 30%.
In addition, Twitter has labeled or removed more than 50,000 "misleading" and "unhealthy" content related to the situation in Russia and Ukraine from the platform, and permanently deleted more than 75,000 accounts.
Since the escalation of the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Chinese social media has become an important channel for governments around the world to speak out.
On February 22 alone, the U.S. Embassy in China, the Russian Embassy in China, the Ukrainian Embassy in China, the French Embassy in China, the British Embassy in China, the German Embassy in China, and other foreign embassies in China posted on Weibo to express their positions on the situation in Ukraine.
Source: Observer Network Client