As the Ukraine-Russia crisis escalates, the Chinese regime has found itself in an awkward position. While Beijing has deepened ties with Moscow, it is also cautious to avoid blowback if it is seen as directly supporting a unilateral move to seize sovereignty of another nation—given the regime’s own designs in absorbing self-ruled Taiwan. While it’s expected that reporting on such a sensitive geopolitical event would be filtered to meet the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda needs, a recent social media post—apparently released to the public by accident—provided a rare glimpse of how the CCP’s messaging gets channeled to the masses. Horizon News, a video news network under state-run Beijing News, on Feb. 22 instructed staff to avoid posting any Ukraine-related content on China’s Twitter-like Weibo that may come across as unfavorable to Russia or pro-Western. “Let me review your draft before you first put it out,” read the Weibo post …