They share an unsourced report about Ukrainian government bombing and killing Russian speaking population and complain that the western media don’t report this atrocity
A video from China’s state TV “debunking” western media lies on Russia, a report from state tabloid repeating Russian Defence Ministry press releases, and a social media video exhorting Chinese to follow the government line that it is not an invasion
They share a video with the caption: Russian precision attack sinking the Ukrainian Defence Headquarter, Putin the Great is a KGB legend. I point out that people were speaking Arabic in the video and it was actually the Israeli operation in Gaza. They ignore my fact checking
A pro-Russia dude claims that the many Chinese Australians he knows all share his view, not my pro-Ukrainian view. He thinks it’s understandable for me to be pro-Ukraine if I were born in Australia, but not if I came from China.
They complain that BBC’s @BowenBBC breaches journalism ethics by tweeting a picture guide of how to throw a Molotov cocktail
A pinkie wants to know where to buy Russia products in Sydney (presumably hoping to show support for Putin)
A rare treat in this group! Some one posts a meme mocking the enthusiastic support Putin gets from the Chinese: “Putin is brought to tears. Without the war, he wouldn’t even know he had so many loyal sons and grandsons on TikTok China”
A pinkie promotes RT
One of the favourite targets of pinkies is Vicky Xu
This question from a pinkie “where do I find shops or supermarkets that stock Russian made products in **Sydney**?” actually is the trigger for my decision to publicise the pro-Russia contents of the group.
What kind of twisted ideology would compel a Chinese living in the liberal democracy of Australia to take the trouble to seek out Russian shops to support Putin’s war on another country?
Naturally they are very very upset, accusing me of “inciting hatred, political persecution, inciting anti-Chinese sentiments, currying favor to obtain US passport, evil culprit responsible for the coming calamity against the Chinese community…”
One reacts like a kindergarten boy caught pulling a girl’s ponytail “but what about the Indians? They are for Putin on Facebook? Why didn’t you expose them?” (But I am not in a Chatroom full of Indians am I?)
They put out a meme praising Minister Wang Xining, China’s top diplomat in Canberra, as a genuine diplomat and I am just an assistant (fact check: true. I was a junior diplomat 20 years ago)
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