China claims “neutrality” on Russia’s war in Ukraine, but it has reliably aided and abetted Russian disinformation on Putin’s brutal war.
After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian officials and state media repeatedly and falsely claimed that Russian forces had discovered U.S.-run bioweapon labs in Ukraine.
In fact, the U.S.-funded, anything-but-secret biological research labs in Ukraine are not developing bioweapons, and are owned and operated by the Ukrainian government. On January 25, Jun Wu Ji, a popular military blogger on Weibo, echoed Russia’s long-held distorted grievance about the Minsk Agreements:
In March 2022, China’s state-run broadcaster CGTN accused the U.S. of betraying the Budapest Memorandum, under which, it said, “the U.S. offered security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear arsenal”:
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