Before someone turns this into "all Chinese love Putin" or "Chinese hate Ukraine" or whatever nonsense, here's some data from actual research conducted by Blackbox, who interviewed 7,000 people in Australia, China, Singapore and India.
In China - where respondents are mostly from urban cities Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen - 3 per cent said they were behind Russia in the conflict, with 71 per cent saying they sympathised with Ukraine instead.
More than eight in 10 in China were undecided on their government's stance, which Blackbox framed as not taking sides in the conflict.
Beijing has not condemned Russia's actions, saying it recognises Ukraine's sovereignty but that Moscow has legitimate security concerns.
In the Blackbox poll, nearly seven in 10 Singaporean respondents said they blamed Russia for the crisis, while just over half of those in China said they did not know. Three per cent in China said the US was at fault.
The Chinese were particularly ambivalent on Russia - with 46 per cent neutral and 45 per cent viewing Moscow negatively; while nearly seven in 10 were neutral on Ukraine.
On how Mr Putin and Mr Zelensky came across to them, the same majority proportion of Chinese - 74 per cent - said they were neutral.
So yeah, let's not turn this into an anti-Chinese rant or whatever. Otherwise you are guilty of the same racial discrimination or whatever you're accusing Chinese authors of.