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Tensions have risen on the border between India and China since clashes erupted in June, in which at least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed.
As the two countries continue to talk about disengagement, misleading content is being shared on social media about stand-about f.
We have taken a look at some of them.
Claim: Chinese soldiers being sent to the border are crying
Sentence: Misleading video from context
The video, shared by Twitter users, was taken by some Taiwanese media outlets in September, and then went viral in India, where users argued that Chinese soldiers were crying – it was claimed – they were sent to the border. .
It has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times, and has also been picked up by India’s top media outlets like Zee News TV channel.
The recruits are on a minibus, singing a popular Mandarin-language military song about being domestic. The red and yellow flags worn by the soldiers “Join the army with honor.”
But we have not found any evidence that they are being sent to the Indian border.
Chinese media outlets said the soldiers were recruiting new troops from Yinghoh District in Fuang City, Anhui Province and were moved to say goodbye to family members.
The Chinese messaging app, WeChet, wrote in a local news outlet on September 15 that the soldiers were going to a military barracks, noting that five of them had volunteered to serve in the Tibetan region.
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But it made no mention of being posted on the border or of recent tensions with India.
And on September 22, the Chinese-language edition of the state-run Global Times picked up the story. He accused the Taiwanese media of “lying” to the picture of new recruits with the Sino-Indian border situation to “say goodbye to their parents with tears”.
Claim: In a video, Indian soldiers dance to the music of Chinese loudspeakers
Attitude: Old video that pre-dates any mention of loudspeakers at the border
On September 16, there were reports in both the Indian and Chinese media of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army of China installing loudspeakers at the border and playing Punjabi music to “distract” Indian soldiers.
Loudspeakers were placed by the Chinese military in the area under round-the-clock surveillance by Indian troops, media reports said.
Both Indian and Chinese media quoted the story as citing Army sources, but no images or videos were shared in the reports and the Indian Army did not confirm this.
Still, India’s social media users are sharing old videos of Indian soldiers dancing to Punjabi music, which we’ve got from the pre-date of any reports of loudspeakers at the border.
A viral video shared in September shows five soldiers dancing to a Punjabi music number. It has over 88,000 views and the user claims that it shows the Indo-China border in Ladakh.
However, the contrast-image search shows that the video is up to July this year.
And yet, it is difficult to establish the exact location of the video, with reports from the time stating that it was on the Indo-Pakistan border, not the Indo-China border as claimed.
Claim: A huge speaker in China is playing music too loud which has injured Indian soldiers
Way: There is no evidence that this device is being used to play music at the border
This is in stark contrast to previous claims about loudspeakers, with a Chinese Twitter user sharing a video of a large device used to blast loud music at Indian camps, injuring and injuring several Indian soldiers.
The video has been viewed more than 200,000 times and has also been featured on an Indian news channel with the same claim.
Now the viral clip is from a March 2016 YouTube video of a Chinese-made mobile warning siren, made by a firm that makes emergency safety devices.
It shows a huge, 6.6-ton rotating siren used for situations like natural disasters or other emergencies for the civilian population, according to the product description on the firm’s website.
It is not a loudspeaker to play music, and it is not clear if this warning siren is being used by the Chinese military at the border.
Also, no ear injuries have been confirmed to Indian troops in the area.
Claim: A bus accident involving Indian security personnel is linked to border tensions
Sentence: Accidents occur but not in the misleading border area
A Chinese Twitter user posted a video on September 21 claiming that India would not be able to meet China in the middle of border talks because “it has to save its troops from killing itself”.
The video showed a section of a military bus sinking in the river with soldiers and soldiers nearby, and in the text it is referred to as the Indian Army’s “fatal suicide attempt in Ladakh”.
The video has been viewed nearly 5,000,000 times.
It is an original video, but it is not from the Indo-China border. It belongs to the state of Chhattisgarh in central India, where a bus full of Indian security personnel fell into a flooded river in Bijpur district in September.
Indian media reported the incident at the time and the bus overturned, saying there were no casualties.
With additional research from BBC Monitoring
