As China and India stand by Russia over Ukraine war, why are their media not speaking in one voice?
- International experts at a Beijing webinar raised concerns over the impact of the cognitive war sparked by the invasion of Ukraine
- While Beijing and New Delhi have refused to condemn Moscow, their media have taken divergent stances on the official line
That was the opinion of media experts at a virtual symposium in Beijing, who put the different media environments down to the divergent social and political traditions in the two Asian neighbours.
This came as participants from Canada, Germany, Mexico, Nepal, Russia, United States and host nation China attending Monday’s webinar raised concerns over the impact of the information battle, or cognitive war, between former Cold War rivals Russia and the US and allied nations that overwhelmingly support Ukraine in the current conflict.
“Now, the majority of the world actually happens to be a true cognitive warfare battleground,” said Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based American political analyst and member of the expert council for the People’s Friendship University of Russia.
The West has come up with tactics to compare Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler and the Russian military to that of Nazi Germany, as Western leaders imposed their toughest sanctions on Moscow, leaving it ever more isolated.
