After the U.S. government issued a stern warning about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) role in the Russia-Ukraine war, the CCP criticized NATO in its domestic propaganda for using Ukraine to fight a proxy war. However, its stance internationally was ambiguous. The CCP adopts different propaganda strategies and focuses when targeting different audiences. The day after U.S. President Joe Biden and CCP leader Xi Jinping ended their phone call on March 19, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said at the International Forum on Strategy and Security at Tsinghua University in Beijing that NATO and the United States should be held responsible for the Russia-Ukraine war. Le also said that when discussing the reason for the “rekindling of war” in Europe, one “should reflect on the Cold War mentality and power politics,” and that NATO should disappear in history like the Warsaw Pact, instead of being more united and threatening …