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Chinese state media made a racist video about India and is censoring its critics - WaPo

A state-run Chinese media agency faces growing backlash over its propaganda video demeaning India's Sikh community, the latest development in what's fast becoming a volatile border dispute between the two nuclear powers.
Titled "7 Sins of India," the video features a Chinese actor, dressed in a turban and phony beard, reciting monosyllabic lines in English but in a manner Indians "are perceived to speak," as the Hindustan Times characterized it.
Critics in India, China and elsewhere have condemned the video as flagrantly racist.
The three-minute clip was published Wednesday on several verified social media channels operated by Xinhua News, an English-language outlet headquartered in Beijing and overseen by China's State Council. It's available internationally on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In China, however, another English-language news site appears to have been censored after criticizing the video.

by Bernard on Thu Aug 17th, 2017 at 07:08:11 PM EST
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WaPoo?

Gee. I thought that organization was BEZOS controlled. Am I to understand, BEZOS DICTATED this story to CIA operatives who publish WaPoo "reporting"? That can't be good for US America, can it?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Aug 17th, 2017 at 08:27:19 PM EST
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There are of course non-USian sources, including local ones:

WATCH: 'Racist' Chinese video on India's 'seven sins' in Doklam - WION

Watch: China mocks India with a racist video over Doklam standoff - Times of India

Chinese state news agency slammed over `racist' India border row video - South China Morning Post

by Bernard on Fri Aug 18th, 2017 at 07:39:54 AM EST
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