Chinese article urging country to cut ties with Putin gets 1m views

Essay on US site republished in China before being censored, reflecting balancing act between Russia and westRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesWhen an essay from a prominent Shanghai scholar suggested China needed to cut ties with Vladimir Putin as soon as possible over the Ukraine war, the online reaction was swift.Despite being published late on a Friday evening in the Carter Center’s US-China Perception Monitor, Hu Wei’s essay soon gained a million views in and outside Chin