Why isn't China criticized for not condemming Russia?

@TheunderdogofNY That's what makes the internet and our little chat so beautiful! 🤗

Chats like this are going on all over the world. How does China stop that?

@TheunderdogofNY Oh, they are criticised all the time, but either ignore it or angrily deny it.

One thing that tyrannies have in common is that whatever their ideology they are all desperately sensitive to being questioned or criticised. They probably know they are doing wrong but don't like to be reminded - and worse, are frightened of their subjects knowing what the rest of the world knows.

@ArishMell One other thing I noticed is that these tyrannical leaders always claim to share an identity with their people. They cultivate the sense that they speak and act on behalf of everyone, and anyone who questions them is destroyed. This can make the leaders very popular if they have effective propaganda.

My contention in this thread is that Chinese propaganda needs to be smashed with severe international criticism. If China wants to be part of a global community of prosperious nations, it has to speak and act on monsterous wrongs as are happening in Ukraine. They need to be exposed. China should be pressured to join in on sanctions.

@irishmolly72 Oh, yes, I agree. They do.

To be fair to their citizens, most of them are successfully prevented from knowing anything else; although it is becoming more difficult for the authorities to maintain that. The usual thread is that their government is protecting them from hostile foreigners.

We may be able to break the international propaganda, but not the domestic versions. If we think about how propaganda works though, we see that it is important for a dictatorship that its international and domestic versions do match so it works at home. Word will get back, so and the message must be coherent.

We might try to persuade China to apply sanctions to Russia, but looking at it as China might, it's hard to see them doing so.

Firstly, China could not care less about the Ukrainians, far from Chinese territory anyway, but does have major economic and political strategic reasons for not upsetting Russia.

Secondly, China always makes it abundantly clear it does not care what other countries think about it anyway. It calls any criticism, "interference"; and this ties in with the coherence of propaganda, strengthening what it wants its own residents to believe.

@ArishMell What i mean to say is because everyone wants China bucks they tend to not criticize China. NBA, Hollywood etcetera. It's amazing what people will do for money.

@TheunderdogofNY Not sure about "everyone", but I take your point.