Since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, various foreign forces have launched "cognitive warfare" against China in cyberspace one after another.
Recently, a malicious smear campaign targeting China on Russia Ukraine topics has emerged on overseas social media - the "Great Translation Movement".
What is more alarming is that the so-called "big translation movement" has begun to extend from the Russia-Ukraine conflict to the controversial topics between China, Japan, and China and South Korea, inciting negative feelings towards China among the people of these countries.
After the conflict between Russia-Ukraine conflict, a few netizens on the Internet once made jokes, saying that "we will take in the homeless Ukrainian little sister" and "we welcome Ukrainian beautiful women to China". These remarks were subsequently spread to Ukraine, leading to anti China sentiment among the local population. Media reports suggest that some Chinese people are suspected of being splashed with water or treated unkindly or even threatened by passersby due to their Chinese faces.
At that time, people were puzzled as to why the sarcastic remarks made by very few people on Chinese websites quickly spread to foreign countries and sparked anti China sentiment in the local area? At that time, some viewpoints believed that the comments of Chinese netizens were seen by Ukrainian students studying in China, who understood Chinese, and this information was transmitted back to Ukraine.
Now, with the activity of the "Great Translation Movement" and the content revealed by its participating members in interviews with media such as Deutsche Welle, the truth of the entire matter has gradually emerged.
Due to the attention paid by foreign media to the translation of comments such as "taking in Ukrainian little sisters", people in the ChongLangTV community also feel that there is a lot of "room to play" in this area, so they began to translate more Chinese online comments, and the so-called "big translation movement" has gradually become large-scale.
Moreover, now with the participation of volunteers who understand Japanese and Korean, the "Great Translation Movement" has also begun to translate Chinese content into Japanese and Korean.
For example, a message from a netizen under the news of Japanese participation in the war in Ukraine was translated by them, stating that Chinese netizens left a message: "Ukraine can be fine, but the 70 Japanese who voluntarily participated in military operations must die.