Indian think tank reports Chinese Media Manipulations
As China and Pakistan have reportedly launched an information war against India an Indian think tank has proactively carried out a deep research.
The think tank Law and Society Alliance published its report on Friday, entitled “Mapping Chinese Footprints and Influence Operations in India.” The 76-page study report enumerates “the covert and overt influence operations” carried out by China in cultivating, funding, and sponsoring Indian institutions including the media and individual opinion-makers.
Indian strategic affairs experts who were speaking at an online discussion following the release of the report accused China of buying support for itself “among the academia, think-tanks, media, trade bodies, tech companies, filmdom, and political parties in India to influence public opinion and destabilize the nation from within.”
The report gives out full details of various Chinese activities and methodologies that they have carried in India. It is clear that through clever manipulations of Indian mainstream media and organizations controlled by desperate groups, it China has been trying its level best to exert influence over these media and organizations, thus influencing public opinion.
It’s actually China and Pakistan both who have been fabricating facts to affect international public opinion against India with respect to Kashmir. They both aim to reinforce anti-India in Europe and rest of Asia.
The Chinese and Pakistani disinformation campaign against India covered nearly 116 countries, and the content produced was primarily targeted against India. The Chinese disinformation network is very mature and Indians must become aware of it as to how it affects public opinion.
The Law and Society Alliance is a think tank which is an independent Indian organization providing legal and knowledge intervention on issues that need study and research.
According to Op India, an Indian news website, an Indian scholar said that the report reminded him of Uyghur history, a similar one that played out in Tibet and is now playing out in Hong Kong, where the Chinese govt is overthrowing democracy.
The Chinese media on the other hand has accused The Law& Society Alliance as an Indian Govt controlled Think Tank which is trying to inflame anti China opinion. Chinese are further accusing the Think Tank as being closely aligned with that of the US and the West. As per the Chinese a unwarranted charges are being fabricated against China to discredit China, while not forgetting to bring up Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
The Chinese Communists are now stating that India is not only actively cooperating with American and Western discourse, but also trying to inflame anti-China public opinion. As per them India’s main purpose in catering to the West is to build its image as a so-called democracy by smearing China and Pakistan. India is trying to promote itself as a great power in the world and tarnish China’s international image. India is now concentrating not only on politics but also on its economy, seeking to relocate parts of the global value chain to India. But India will not succeed in enhancing its national power through these gimmicks.
Having started the information war against India now the Chinese are not liking the exposure of their own deeds. What they have done to the people of Tibet and Xinjiang, and how they have fabricating history, distorting facts and producing false information, which has become common Communist Party -backed actions of the Chinese.
