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Chinese Media’s Latest Attack on India is a Racist Video

We can’t figure out what’s going on in this video. Can you?

Indira Basu
Social Buzz
Updated:
The video has been called out for its racism and bigotry.
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The video has been called out for its racism and bigotry.
(Photo Courtesy: Twitter Screengrab/China Xinhua News)

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China’s state news agency Xinhua has released a rather bizarre video on the Doklam standoff. The video, which has been widely denounced as “racist” on social media, shows a turbaned and bearded man with a heavy accent, wielding a pair of scissors.

What is Going on in This Video?

Titled ‘7 Sins of India: It’s time for India to confess its seven sins’, the video accuses India of having committed the following sins: trespassing, breaching a bilateral convention, quashing international law, confusing right and wrong, victim-blaming, “hijacking a small neighbour,” and consciously standing by a mistake.

(Photo Courtesy: Twitter Screengrab/China Xinhua News)

In a dig at India’s stance on the standoff, the anchor says:

China has realised it is impossible to wake a guy who is pretending to asleep.
(Photo Courtesy: Twitter Screengrab/China Xinhua News)

The “Indian” guy in the video then goes on to say: “Nobody is blaming me because I am asleep”.

(Photo Courtesy: Twitter Screengrab/China Xinhua News)
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(Photo Courtesy: Twitter Screengrab/China Xinhua News)
No seriously, what IS going on in this video?

Twitter Calls Out the Racism

The video was slammed on Twitter.

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Published: 16 Aug 2017,03:30 AM IST

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