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
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and its western allies along with russia s military preg on the battlefield. they rarely mention the fierce resistance and suffering in war torn ukraine. publicly beijing stresses its impartiality in the conflict, even indicating its willingness to be a mediator. cnn combing through chinese tv and digital news report in the first eight days of the russian atrack along with thousands of social media posts froe outlets. our findings, china has largely adopted russia s talking points, actively helping the kremlin disseminate its version of the bloody war to millions here and beyond. the chinese foreign ministry has yet to respond to our request for comment, but remember russian president vladimir putin s last foreign visit before he launched the invasion was here to china. following the 38th meeting between putin and chinese president xi jinping in 2013 and just hours before the opening ceremony of the winter olympics the two governments declared a
victory over nazi germany. by accident or design a character that doesn t feature in russia s alphabet has become an iconic symbol of putin s invasion and a propaganda campaign to win support among his people. phil black, cnn, london. in china government officials have attempted to stake out a seemingly neutral position on the war in ukraine in public remarks and at international meetings, but much of china s domestic media coverage of russia emphasis invasion tells a much more one-sided story. david culver is in shanghai. reporter: china s national broadcaster, cctv, looking increasingly like russian state television these days. its anchors parroting the kremlin, calling the invasion of ukraine a special military operation. its stories highlighting moskow s grievances against kyiv
invasion even started. the memo directed staff not to publish anything negative about r russia or pro-west. cnn research has found china s major state media outlets appear to be following that play book. of the most retweeted more than 46% contained pro-russia comments compared to less than 5% with pro-ukraine statements. roughly 35% of the posts included attacks on the u.s. and its allies. with reports by russia state media outlets being banned in western nations and moskow enacting its own great firewall to censor chinese state media is spreading misinformation on-air around the clock.