At Home Neutral China Pushes Vladimir Putin S Agenda On Ukraine War
“Behind the Ukraine crisis lies the shadow of American hegemony,” the People’s Daily, which carries the party’s official viewpoints, said on page 3 of its March 29 edition. Author “Zhong Sheng”—the Chinese leadership’s pen name when expounding on international affairs—continues: “U.S.-led NATO’s eastward expansion is the root cause of the Ukraine crisis; the U.S. is the instigator of the Ukraine crisis.” The column is the first in a new series published by the CCP’s propaganda department, and the latest front in Beijing’s own years-long struggle against the postwar international order led from Washington....