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NEW DELHI: Realising that its attempt at humour last week was laughed at more than laughed with, Chinese state media's latest anti-India video shocks with its comparative placidity.
The video, by China's official news agency Xinhua, even throws a few praises India's way, calling the country one of the "world's oldest civilisations" and one with a "brilliant" culture.
All remarkably tame stuff compared with last week's bizarre, racist video titled '7 sins of India', about the Doklam border standoff. That video featured a man with a fake beard and a turban, ostensibly a Sikh gentleman, talking in an odd accent, ostensibly an Indian one.
This latest video, apparently part of a series called "Talk India", falls back on Chinese state media's time-honoured standby - a hectoring and moralising lecture complete with none-too-veiled threats against New Delhi.
The video parrots Beijing's stance that India rather than its People's Liberation Army violated the border.
"On June 18, Indian troops carrying weapons and driving two bulldozers crossed the Sikkim sector and entered Chinese territory. It obstructed Chinese road works in the region causing a standoff between the two sides," says the Xinhua video.
This narrative is, of course, completely the opposite of Bhutan's and India's version of events. Both these countries say China's PLA violated the border and crossed into Bhutanese territory on the tri-junction of the three countries at the border in the Sikkim sector.
The Xinhua video then says "the border issue shows a lack of strategic trust" by India. This, it says could lead to "strategic myopia" that "could even hurt India's own interests". After that veiled threat comes the sop and a pat on its own back.
"India and China are two of the world's oldest civilisations with time honoured histories and brilliant cultures. They are not born rivals. Contact between the two countries stretch back to ancient times. Which is why India should immediately and unconditionally withdraw all troops from Chinese territory," says the Xinhua commentator.
The commentary's leap from "contact in ancient times" to "withdraw all troops unconditionally" is swift and inexplicable, comes as it does with no segue whatsoever. The commentator then reiterates what he said at the beginning of the video, about the need for "sobriety" on India's part.
"It (India) should remain sober and guard against any future poor judgement...Any spiral into some kind of hostile rivalry could be disastrous," the video warns.
"It (India) should remain sober and guard against any future poor judgement...Any spiral into some kind of hostile rivalry could be disastrous," the video warns.
It then says that India and China "both need to nurture a more solid trust" between them.
"After all, there is more than enough room in Asia for the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant to dance together," it concludes - until the next edition of its programme "Talk India".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...her-anti-india-video/articleshow/60152605.cms
This is getting funny day by day. They thought they will make fun of us ended up becoming point of the joke.
The video, by China's official news agency Xinhua, even throws a few praises India's way, calling the country one of the "world's oldest civilisations" and one with a "brilliant" culture.
All remarkably tame stuff compared with last week's bizarre, racist video titled '7 sins of India', about the Doklam border standoff. That video featured a man with a fake beard and a turban, ostensibly a Sikh gentleman, talking in an odd accent, ostensibly an Indian one.
This latest video, apparently part of a series called "Talk India", falls back on Chinese state media's time-honoured standby - a hectoring and moralising lecture complete with none-too-veiled threats against New Delhi.
The video parrots Beijing's stance that India rather than its People's Liberation Army violated the border.
"On June 18, Indian troops carrying weapons and driving two bulldozers crossed the Sikkim sector and entered Chinese territory. It obstructed Chinese road works in the region causing a standoff between the two sides," says the Xinhua video.
This narrative is, of course, completely the opposite of Bhutan's and India's version of events. Both these countries say China's PLA violated the border and crossed into Bhutanese territory on the tri-junction of the three countries at the border in the Sikkim sector.
The Xinhua video then says "the border issue shows a lack of strategic trust" by India. This, it says could lead to "strategic myopia" that "could even hurt India's own interests". After that veiled threat comes the sop and a pat on its own back.
"India and China are two of the world's oldest civilisations with time honoured histories and brilliant cultures. They are not born rivals. Contact between the two countries stretch back to ancient times. Which is why India should immediately and unconditionally withdraw all troops from Chinese territory," says the Xinhua commentator.
The commentary's leap from "contact in ancient times" to "withdraw all troops unconditionally" is swift and inexplicable, comes as it does with no segue whatsoever. The commentator then reiterates what he said at the beginning of the video, about the need for "sobriety" on India's part.
"It (India) should remain sober and guard against any future poor judgement...Any spiral into some kind of hostile rivalry could be disastrous," the video warns.
"It (India) should remain sober and guard against any future poor judgement...Any spiral into some kind of hostile rivalry could be disastrous," the video warns.
It then says that India and China "both need to nurture a more solid trust" between them.
"After all, there is more than enough room in Asia for the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant to dance together," it concludes - until the next edition of its programme "Talk India".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...her-anti-india-video/articleshow/60152605.cms
This is getting funny day by day. They thought they will make fun of us ended up becoming point of the joke.