Chinese Racism

Indians more amused than outraged by Chinese '7 Sins' video

Reuters

This video, released by Chinese state news agency Xinhua, accuses India of perpetrating "Seven Sins."

NEW DELHI -- Indians have been more amused than outraged by an agitprop video released by a Chinese state news agency that accuses India of perpetrating "Seven Sins" in a two-month-old frontier standoff and resorts to a racial stereotype to make its point.
The video, an edition of Xinhua's new "Spark" show, features anchor Dier Wang accusing India of trespassing on Chinese soil, violating international law and "hijacking" the tiny kingdom of Bhutan that has been caught up in the dispute.
An actor wearing a turban and stick-on beard gives obtuse answers, to canned laughter, in the three-minute video posted via Xinhua's English-language account on social network Twitter (http://bit.ly/2vK7HQp). 

Twitter is blocked in China.
"Have you ever negotiated with a robber who had broken into your house and refuses to leave?" asks Wang in American-accented English. 

"You just call 911 or just fight him back, right?"
The actor, apparently representing India, answers: "Why call 911 -- don't you wanna play house, bro?"
Wang gets the last word: "If you wanna play, get out of my house first."
The trouble started in June when India sent troops to stop China building a road in the Doklam area, which is remote, uninhabited territory claimed by both China and India's ally Bhutan.
China has repeatedly asked India to withdraw from the area or else face the prospect of an escalation. Chinese state media have warned India of a fate worse than its crushing defeat in a brief border war in 1962.
Although the escalation in tension is the worst in years, the clip's sketchy production values offered light relief while the stereotype played by the "Indian" actor appeared to cause only mild offence.
"This is China's official sense of humour!" tweeted Indian defence pundit Ajai Shukla. 

"Xinhua isn't quite sure whether it's producing a spoof ... or a propaganda piece."
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing that she had not seen the video, but would look into it.
India's foreign ministry could not be reached for comment. 

Xinhua asked for questions about the video to be sent by fax, to which it did not immediately respond.

Race War

Racist video from China's official press agency mocks Indians and insulted Prime Minister Narendra Modi

By Nyshka Chandran 

A major state-run Chinese media outlet uploaded a video containing derogatory depictions of Indians in what could be the latest flashpoint amid escalating tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.

A Xinhua video released on August 16, 2017 about the India-China border standoff in the Himalayas.
Late on Wednesday, Xinhua — widely seen as a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party — released an English-language video about ongoing border clashes between Indian and Chinese troops near a tri-junction area that borders Bhutan, India and Tibet, which is claimed and occupied by China.
The video, called "Seven Sins of India," showed a Chinese male speaking in an Indian accent, sporting a turban and fake facial hair in an apparent representation of a Sikh man.
In portraying seven examples of alleged mistakes made by New Delhi in the border standoff, the video mocked India's concern about Chinese road construction in the disputed zone, which it likened to a man "building a path in his garden."
The video called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "asleep," "thick-skinned" and compared New Delhi's actions in the border area to "a robber who had just broken into your house and refused to leave."
It also referred to India's defense of Bhutan as a "hijack" of its smaller neighbor.
Aside from land skirmishes, bilateral ties between the two Asian giants are also weighed down by maritime tensions in the Indian Ocean.