China’s Propaganda on Ukraine Seeps Into Western Mainstream Media

Western reporters repeat CCP propaganda that contradicts its territorial aggression

A woman walking past a poster of the South China Sea, with the slogan at the bottom "China's territory, never to yield an inch of our ground" on a street in Weifang, east China's Shandong Province, on July 14, 2016. STR/AFP/Getty Images

News Analysis

In otherwise excellent reporting on China’s reaction to Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion, Western reporters continue to buy into major elements of Beijing’s propaganda, namely that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stands for peace, state sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and that these so-called Beijing policies somehow contrast with Moscow’s invasion.