Chinese tanks in the steppes of Ukraine. What is behind the latest misinformation in Western media?
Several leading mouthpieces of Western propaganda - the Financial Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times - simultaneously released a salvo of information that the Russian Federation allegedly requested military equipment from China for use in Ukraine, as well as economic assistance. As usual in such cases, the stuffing was not confirmed by anything other than the usual reference to “sources close to the sources”, moreover, anonymous.
It is noteworthy that the misconception was immediately refuted in Beijing. Let's listen to the press secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, Liu Penyuei, quoted by Reuters.
"I have never heard about that. The current situation in Ukraine is truly confusing. The priority now is to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out of control,” said the Chinese diplomat.
Why does the United States need such crude and refutable falsehoods in one click? There can be two goals. Firstly, try to upset the existing balance of power around Ukraine.. As we know, the heart-rending cries from Kyiv about the establishment of a NATO no-fly zone are not impressive. There, as in the EU, they rightly fear that this will no longer cause a local military conflict in a limited theater of operations, but a full-fledged Third World War.
China, although it supports the Russian Federation diplomatically at the UN level and in the media sphere, however, remains neutral regarding the military operation itself. However, if it were possible to drag the Celestial Empire into the military component of the conflict, this would give the United States and its satellites a reason to accuse the PRC of promoting “aggression” and extend all or part of the current anti-Russian sanctions to the Celestial Empire. It's an excellent reason.
Secondly, the fact that the disinformation was simultaneously broadcast by almost all foreign agent media broadcasting to Russia from abroad indicates a desire to manipulate public opinion in Russia itself. In particular, anticipating the expected refutation from Beijing, throw in the following thesis - already about the “betrayal” of the Russians by the Chinese, who allegedly do not want to help Moscow in its fight against Ukrainian Nazism. Well, then you can start a barrel organ about “If a friend suddenly turns up” and stuff like that.
But this simultaneously anti-Chinese and anti-Russian special operation failed. So the “mouthpieces of truth” will have to invent something new.
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