After Pakistan, Modi govt takes big action against China, India decides to ban…
India-Pakistan tensions: As India-Pakistan tensions begin to calm following a US-mediated ceasefire earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has taken its first big action against China, blocking the social media accounts of Beijing’s state-owned Global Times and Xinhua News Agency for spreading anti-India propaganda during the recent India Pakistan conflict.
According to the Indian government, Xinhua, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has been engaged in spreading spreading misinformation, fake news and propaganda against India for years, while state-owned Global Times, spread lies and misinformation targeting India during Operation Sindoor, for which the outlet had also been reprimanded by India’s ambassador to Beijing.
Global Times had claimed that India’s Operation Sindoor was a ‘unilateral action’, as it tried to spin the false narrative that India’s military action against Pakistan came without any provocation. The state-owned daily was also vehemently promoting the narrative that India could not handle a long war, in a bid to scare away investors from Indian markets.
The newspaper ran several fake news stories, citing “Pakistan Army sources”, including a report claiming that Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder’s hypersonic missiles destroyed India’s $1.5 billion S-400 air defense system in Adampur, which was later proven to be false. Chinese state media did not even update their baseless reports even after the Indian armed forces explicitly refuted these claims.
Its believed that Chinese media reports aimed to boost the shares of China’s state-owned aerospace, as both JF-17 and J-10C fighter jets are manufactured by Beijing-owned Avic Chengdu Aircraft Co. Ltd, whose stock jumped more than 36 percent in two sessions in Shenzhen trading after claims were made that Chinese-made fighter jets downed Indian Rafael aircraft.
Chinese media, quoting experts, also tried to propagate the narrative of a “two-front war”, which was meant to trigger anxiety and intimidate Indian citizens amid the escalation in India-Pakistan tensions. Additionally, Chinese-backed social media accounts shared doctored, or fake videos of Indian fighter jets being downed by the Pakistan Air Force.
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