Amplification Among Allies: Russian and PRC Information Operations in Latin America

Published by the Power 3.0 blog from the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy

One year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and not long after the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue Vladimir Putin’s arrest warrant, Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Moscow. While there, Beijing released a 12-point peace proposal supposedly to end the war in Ukraine, but this plan was met with broad skepticism. The document avoided using the terms “war” or “invasion.” It implicitly placed equal blame on victim and aggressor, making the proposed plan untenable for Ukraine, as well as the EU and its partners. Such actions—along with Russia’s ‘new foreign policy concept’ declaring its preeminent role in shaping the international relations system in their antagonism against Western values—illustrate these regimes’ hostility to democratic values. 

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