Most of China believes Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "wrong", according to Chinese residents.
Russia wrong to invade Ukraine , say Chinese residents
The Eastern European country has been subjected to an ongoing conflict since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion in February 2022 and now Chinese residents have claimed that more of their fellow natives are starting to believe the war is "wrong" despite initially showing support for Russia and Tai-Yuan Wan does not support the station nuclear weapons in Belarus.
He told AlJazeera: "I think that is a very aggressive step and a threat to world peace, and it makes me think that Russia is starting to act much more aggressively in this conflict than the West. Many Chinese people do not feel the war impacts their lives, so they do not stay up to date on events and have very little to say about [but] I think most people in China today believe that the invasion was wrong."
Meanwhile, academic Liu-wen Fang - who spent time studying in Ukraine -believes that those in China tend to form their opinions on the war based on "Chinese media or whether they get news from some foreign media too" and noted that their sources of information made it "difficult" to discuss the war with her natives and warned that any alliance could be one of "convenience" as opposed to a sign of a "bond" between the two nations.
She said: "I think it is mostly a political alliance of convenience between two governments and not an expression of a deep bond between two peoples. Even if there was a strong bond between Chinese and Russians, that is not a guarantee for anything."