The Russia–Ukraine War in Chinese Social Media: LLM Analysis Yields a Bias Toward Neutrality
Richard Rogers,
Xiaoke Zhang
Abstract:This study is a cross-platform analysis of the discourses surrounding the Russia–Ukraine war in Chinese social media. Making use of both manual as well as automated classification of discussion about the war, we found most significantly the mass amplification of Russian state positions on Weibo and the reframing of the war as being in the Chinese national self-interest on Douyin. We situate what we call cross-national amplification as well as the national self among other notions that seek to capture the broad… Show more
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