Comments on the social network Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia were largely leaked.
Although the meeting between Xi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is among the top topics shared on Weibo, most of the comments on the state visit come from official bodies and only allow some comment.
The visible comments mainly consist of ideograms of hearts and thumbs up. In some cases, the comments section is disabled. This was also the case during Putin’s State of the Nation address in Moscow last February.
Xi Jinping began a three-day state visit to Moscow on Monday, at a time when Putin has been increasingly isolated on the international stage since the start of the war in Ukraine.
China was one of the countries that abstained from voting on a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of the UN Assembly.
In a peace plan proposed at the end of February, Beijing stressed the importance of “respecting the sovereignty of all countries”, in reference to Ukraine, but also called for an end to the “Cold War mentality”, in an implicit criticism of enlargement. from NATO. China also called for an end to Western sanctions on Russia.
Source: TSF
