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Apologies if this is an incredibly naive question: How aware are people in China of what has been censored from them? I've heard of 'tank man' as a common example of this. Students studying/traveling abroad from China encounter the imagery and western take on events and have just never heard of it before.

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There is a pretty good video by the "Asian Boss" YouTube channel [1] where they interview Chinese people about the war in Ukraine.

I found the opinions much more polarized than expected. People do seem to reiterate that China and Russia are a national counter force against the USA on the geopolitical spectrum, but not everyone manifests support for Putin.

1 - https://youtu.be/vZoxqltgS0Y

> How aware are people in China of what has been censored from them?

I believe this is directly correlated to the amount of people that speak English. Eg. If you look at Russian tech, they are very aware of state censorship.

China, not so much.

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