Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, China’s short video platform Douyin, known as TikTok overseas, released a video showing an elementary school teacher telling students that Ukraine is a “prodigal” child of the former Soviet Union. In this video, a female teacher, whose face not shown, vehemently told dozens of sixth-grade students in class that Ukraine should have been a most proud country as it inherited the largest military legacy of the former Soviet Union at the end of the 20th century, but it is a prodigal and therefore now a most regrettable nation. In the video, the teacher also engaged the students, asking them to take turns to answer a question—what legacy Ukraine had inherited from the former Soviet Union. Towards the end, she asked another question, “What have we learned from this incident?” The answers from students included “stick to our own path,” which is a quote from Chinese …