China’s state-run Global Times on Friday slammed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for criticizing China’s support for the Russian intrusion of Ukraine.
The Global Times growled that Stoltenberg was a phony, China clearly wants the Ukraine war to end, and NATO is more of a risk to world peace than the Chinese Communist Party.
Stoltenberg held a press conference ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday in which he accused China of giving Russia “political assistance” for the invasion of Ukraine, “consisting of by spreading out blatant lies and false information.”
Stoltenberg stated NATO is worried China’s political support might intensify to “material assistance” for Russia and encouraged the Chinese federal government to “measure up to its duties” by signing up with the rest of the world in opposing the intrusion.
“We face a fundamentally altered security environment where authoritarian powers are progressively prepared to utilize force to get their way. Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of independent nations to choose their own course,” he stated.
Voice of America News (VOA) pointed out research that backed up Stoltenberg’s remarks about China spreading out misinformation on Russia’s behalf:
Posts by Chinese authorities and news outlets have “stayed mostly aligned with Russian messaging,” according to analysis by the Washington-based Alliance for Securing Democracy, which tracks online propaganda.
“‘NATO’ was the tenth most used key phrase in Chinese tweets last week, as Chinese officials and state media continue to frame possible NATO enlargement as the origin of Russia’s intrusion,” the alliance stated, noting Beijing also duplicated Russian disinformation efforts tying the U.S. to biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine.
The Global Times reacted on Friday by accusing Stoltenberg of “marketing lies which have confused black and white” while his “face skin may be thicker than the Berlin Wall,” which is evidently a tortured metaphor for lying with a straight face.
“Is NATO, the biggest promoter of the Russia-Ukraine dispute, in any way qualified to point a finger at China, which has been assisting in discussion for peace from the extremely starting?” the Global Times squealed.
After reciting some Chinese Communist boilerplate about how Beijing, which adamantly refuses to knock the Russian intrusion, desires nothing more than peace in Ukraine, the Global Times accused NATO of tricking Russia into assaulting due to the fact that it wants to recreate the Cold War to validate its ongoing presence.
“NATO, which has long been considered ‘brain dead,’ requires to find a life-saving ventilator, as depending on the oxygen brought about by creating a ‘Russophobia’ is progressively inadequate. It fears it will expire at any time without being ‘intubated,'” the editorial ranted.
Those are some deeply offending metaphors coming from the brutal routine that unleashed the Wuhan coronavirus upon the world and condemned countless innocent individuals to suffer on very non-metaphorical ventilators. (The sputtering Chinese editors never ever got around to describing they were attempting to riff on French President Emmanuel Macron describing the “brain death” of NATO in a 2019 interview with The Economic expert).
The Global Times hooted that NATO’s focus on the increasing threat of China proves it is merely a “tool for the U.S. to maintain hegemony” and a “maker for the application of the U.S.’ international will.”
“As long as NATO exists, there will be no day of peace in Europe and on the planet,” the hysterical editorial concluded.