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China's uphill battles, from Putin to COVID: Newsweek's Melinda Liu

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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China's Propaganda Needs a Sense of Humor

The chinese state run broadcaster c g t n has been trying to a show some of what's going on in ukraine. But the problem with that is, if you focus too much on the loss of the russians, then what happens when you have to turn around and say, oh, russia has achieved its goals? And so they don't know exactly how to play it. They an astounding capability to maintain a state of denial, to say things that are clearly not true. Their propaganda needs. Sometimes a can spin out of control, and they hey the they don't knows exactly how toplay it.

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