A video posted on Chinese social networks last year showed around a hundred Japanese children all shouting a slogan in chorus, allegedly in the playground of a Shanghai elementary school. The Chinese subtitles read: “To us Shanghai! And afterwards, all of China too!”

What we see online is linked to the nationalist sentiment fostered in China under President Xi Jinping, which expresses a “China against the rest of the world” mentality. When tensions with its rivals escalated, China adopted “warrior wolf” diplomacy, a term describing the ultranationalist and often bellicose tone of Chinese geopolitics.

Online hatred and disinformation are by no means China’s prerogative. But the Chinese government modulates public opinion through a well-oiled machine that encourages or tolerates such messages if they are directed against certain countries and their populations... Source