China Academy Poll: Support for Palestine, But Mixed Feelings on Russia

The Full Poll Result - How Chinese Youth See the US, Russia, Ukraine and Palestine

Editor’s Note:

China Academy Poll is a bi-monthly product that offers the most up-to-date, on-the-ground sentiment analysis among China’s youth.

The ongoing armed conflicts between Isreal/Palestine and Ukraine/Russia are constantly testing, if not dividing public opinions worldwide. Unlike the U.S. or Europe where relationships with the four parties involved naturally elicit intense and overt reactions due to historical and geographcial reasons, Chinese public is experiencing subtler manifestation of “taking sides”. To put our finger on the pulse of the situation, we initiated a poll on Bilibili deliberatly asking people to pick sides in the two ongoing wars. Bilibili is one of China’s most widely used social media platform among the Gen Z demographic. With a total of 34,873 votes and insights drawn from all the comments on the poll, the result allows us to identify not only current trends, but also debates that could foreshadow future courses of public opinion.

Highlights:

1. The existing poll result shows an overwhelming support for Palestine and Russia, yet the reasons and emotional intensity prompting these two choices vary tremendously