Wu, Min Hsuan (Ttcat) is the co-founder and CEO of the Taiwanese public organization "Doublethink Lab." He focuses on exposing Chinese information operations online and identifying the common mechanisms behind them. With the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he became interested in how Chinese and Russian propaganda collaborate. After Putin's speech declaring Russia's intentions to invade Ukraine in February 2022, Ttcat saw the transcript of the speech in Chinese, word for word, just an hour later. At first, he thought it was a fake and that the speech was written by the Chinese. It contained the same propaganda narratives China uses regarding Taiwan. Specifically, Putin claimed that Ukraine wasn't a real country. But for China, Taiwan is not a real state either, Ttcat points out. This translation wasn’t a fake but evidence that, in essence, Russian and Chinese propaganda narratives are identical.

Journalist Angelina Kariakina talks to Ttcat about the main narratives of Chinese propaganda within Taiwan, how they have changed, how the residents of Taiwan currently view China, what they want, and how this country managed to make a technological breakthrough.

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