and in other news, with more cities in china in lockdown, can beijing s zero covid policy ever beat the highly contagious omicron variant? live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. the head of the united nations has appealed for an end to the war in ukraine, saying the people are enduring a living hell. antonio guterres has warned the situation is becoming more destructive and unpredictable by the hour. ukraine says ten hospitals have been destroyed in the russian bombardment so far, and major cities are running short of both food and medical supplies. heavy fighting is continuing in many parts of the country.
dr martin luther king. and he really, i think, has found a way to speak directly to the hearts of the people he s trying to address. interestingly, chinese state media have been repeating russian propaganda. how do you assess china s role in this propaganda or disinformation war? it s really interesting. i think that china is trying to walk a very thin line. they were public in their support of vladimir putin when he came to visit beijing during the olympics. they talked about how the relationship had no limit. and then they found themselves looking at this horrific experience in ukraine. and they seem to want to back away from russia in the eyes of the west but then also convince the people that they had done the right thing when they were supporting putin. so they have used their great firewall to a great extent, and tried to block out any kind of western information or information from on the ground in ukraine, and instead have parroted the russian line. the ukrainian narrative, i t
Winston Lord, former United States Ambassador to China, tells us he recently hacked into the temples of government, pecking at his first-generation iPad with just one finger a clear sign that both Beijing and Washington need to beef up their cyber defenses.
As the Biden administration pivots to Asia and the Pacific, it should not underestimate the strategic importance of the EU in any effort to limit China.