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The Great Translation Movement is a Twitter account launched in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It seeks to document displays of ultranationalist, pro-Russian and anti-Western sentiment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) by translating comments found in the country's Internet. The languages it has translated to include English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The Guardian observed that the Great Translation Movement (GTM) has been a source for English-language speakers to understand the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese state media's reaction towards the Russian invasion of Ukraine, although experts cautioned seeing the posts as representative of the Chinese public's views, citing China's highly censored media environment and personal biases within GTM. Others have pointed out that translated nationalist content can paint an overly simplistic picture and runs the risk of conflating the Chinese public with the CCP. Chinese state media have been highly critical of GTM and said that it is part of a propaganda campaign by "hostile foreign forces" against the country. Despite primarily focusing on posts from within PRC-controlled internet spaces, GTM has also translated posts from Taiwanese politicians.
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