News Analysis China’s state media, including its most serious news outlets, the People’s Daily and China Daily, are amplifying Russian propaganda on the war in Ukraine, including anti-American and anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone so far as to compare the situation to Taiwan and justify, in the nationalist tabloid Global Times, an invasion of that island democracy. The CCP-controlled media in China labels Vladimir Putin’s invasion a “special military operation” to stop what Moscow’s disinformation calls a “genocide” of Russians in Ukraine and “NATO expansion” that supposedly threatens Russia and China. This propagandistic twisting of the truth whitewashes Putin’s bloody and unprovoked war against a sovereign state into something one might expect a doctor to perform. Here the CCP’s disinformation is at its worst, given that Moscow has destroyed multiple hospitals in Ukraine, including children’s and maternity hospitals. Beijing is using its …