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I'm picking up what you're putting down. Let me carry it a little further. The first time I saw the video, I didn't think too much of it. The second time I saw it, I wondered, what were the comments saying? And in the comments, they were overwhelmingly positive. There was a sentiment of "at least somebody's doing something" or 'China leading the way" or "China standing on its principles." That sort of thing. It wasn't until the third one that I saw someone pointing out that the video that was being shown was from an earlier time. But again, the comments were overwhelmingly positive in regards to China, and there was a shared sentiment of, like, "thank goodness."

Once I did some digging and I found that these videos were obviously fake or misrepresenting past events. The first conclusion my brain drew was maybe these videos and their intention are to pacify people. The thinking being that if enough people see this message, accept it uncritically, and share it far and wide, then it may have a kind of cooling effect on the population's thinking towards the current situation in Gaza. They might think, "oh, thank goodness, something is happening, that means I don't need to do something now, because China is."

I don't know. It's very cynical, but it seems like everything is on the table.