Chinese media censors what’s really happening in Ukraine

Chinese news outlets have been critisised for their reporting of the war in Ukraine

While international audiences have been seeing images of besieged Ukrainian cities following Russia’s aggressive invasion, Chinese viewers have been shown Russian aid convoys bringing supplies to beleaguered Ukrainians.

China seems to be putting on a front and not showing Russia’s aggressiveness towards its neighbour.

While thousands of civilians in Ukraine have been seen fleeing the country through humanitarian corridors that have faced Russian bombardment, these types of images are not being broadcasted within China on state media.

China’s ‘People’s Daily’, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, posted a video on March 9 on Weibo, the popular Chinese social media platform, showing Russia providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians outside Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city near the Russian border that has faced artillery and rocket attacks since Moscow’s February 24 invasion.

People Daily’s video received more than 3 million views.

Another outlet in China has been slammed for painting a different picture too. A Moscow correspondent of China’s Phoenix TV reported in a city of Ukraine, Mariupol, where he s[ple with Russian troops and claimed that civilians in the city had “welcomed” the presence of Kremlin soldiers.
Chinese viewers were shown Russian aid convoys bringing supplies to beleaguered Ukrainians.

The War in Ukraine, which has now entered its second week, has been covered by networks around the world. But since the beginning, China’s tightly controlled media and heavily censored Internet have provided increasingly skewed coverage.

The communist nation’s outlets have continuously been slammed for omitting details on civilian casualties and the widespread international condemnation of Moscow.