Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined again by Yawei Liu, Senior Director for China at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and by Danielle Goldfarb, head of global research at RIWI Corp, an innovative web-based research outfit headquartered in Toronto. They discuss a survey commissioned by the Carter Center to look at Chinese attitudes toward the Russo-Ukrainian War: whether Chinese people believe supporting Russia to be in China's interest, what they believe China's best course of action to be, and whether they're aware of — and if so, whether they believe — disinformation pushed by Moscow about U.S.-run bio labs in Ukraine. Danielle also discusses other survey research that RIWI has conducted about China that relates to the war in Ukraine.

2:41 – Why public opinion still matters in authoritarian countries

5:35 – Has the debate over the Russian invasion of Ukraine been completely shut down in China?

12:17 – RIWI’s technology and survey methodology

18:47 – The Carter Center questionnaire and its results

28:05 – RIWI’s Military Conflict Risk Index, and the China-Taiwan results

35:26 – The puzzling correlation between education level and propensity to believe disinformation

42:00 – Popular attitudes about the relationships among Russia, China, and the U.S.

A transcript of this podcast is available on SupChina.com

Recommendations:

Yawei: How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions, by Luke Patey.

Danielle: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez.

Kaiser: Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

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0:50.3	It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news
0:53.4	about a nation that is reshaping the world.
0:56.6	We cover China with neither fear nor favor.
0:59.7	I'm Kaiser Guo coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
1:03.5	Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th of this year, we've talked quite a bit on this show about Chinese public opinion, but thus far,
1:12.6	we've mostly had to rely on anecdotal evidence, on the intuitions or the general sense that
1:17.9	various scholars and pundits have from their social media feeds or from conversations they've
1:23.1	had with their interlocutors, be they from China or from Russia or elsewhere, and what they can
1:29.9	infer from patterns of censorship, for example, in China.
1:32.7	This week on Seneca, we'll be taking a look at some of the actual public opinion research
1:36.8	and not just on Chinese attitudes toward the war, but also on attitudes among people in China,
1:41.9	the U.S. and Russia toward one another, and more.
1:45.5	Joining me to discuss is Yaweh Liu Liu Yawe, the senior advisor on China at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
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