China is spending billions spreading venomous pro-Russian propaganda around the world, including against Ukraine, said James Rubin, coordinator of the Global Engagement Center, a US State Department body set up to expose and counter foreign propaganda and disinformation, The Guardian writes..

“Beijing works all over the world and spends more than Moscow. The well has been poisoned by Chinese and Russian disinformation – it’s devastating,” said Rubin, a television personality and former Clinton administration official..

His group not only worked for six weeks to refute Russian-Chinese disinformation about Ukraine, but also went on the offensive, urging countries not to give asylum to those who were caught spreading disinformation..

“We as a nation and the West have been too slow to react, and now quite naturally we are faced with a very big challenge.. In the communication space, the alignment between China and Russia is almost complete,” he told reporters..

According to him, China is repeating and spreading Russia's arguments about the war "

Echoing the US administration's warning that cooperation between China and Russia could reach the next level - the supply of lethal weapons to Moscow - Rubin expressed the hope that people will not make the same mistake with China that they used to make with Russia..

He also expressed disappointment that "

“For some countries in Africa, for some countries in Asia, Ukraine is a distant war.

They think they don't get enough Western attention, period.. This makes some of them look at the war through this prism,” the journalist added..

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The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that the Kremlin organized a whole industry of lies to justify the invasion of Ukraine..

According to a survey by the Cemas Center, support for Russian conspiracy narratives about the war against Ukraine increased significantly in Germany at the end of last year..