partnership with no limits. china and russia s increasingly close ties had included coordinating their message on the global stage. such coordination it now appears has drawn beijing into playing an important role in the kremlin s disinformation campaign. on february 26th after two nights of russian bombardment zelenskyy shared a video of himself on the streets of kyiv. russian officials quickly alleged that zelenskyy had fled the country and the video was prerecorded. less than 15 minutes later cctv flashed a news alert claiming zelenskyy has left kyiv initially without any attribution. more than 160 chinese outlets reposted the alert. with the hashtag zelenskyy left kyiv later got more than 10 million views on chinese social media weibo, and yet it was not true. and perhaps most damning an internal memo surfaced online two days before the russian