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A source close to the PLA told the South China Morning Post “that Beijing was ‘very sensitive’ about military casualties, saying all numbers had to be approved by President Xi Jinping before being released”

Interesting piece by Shweta Desai (@BeingBum).

newslaundry.com/2020/06/19/why…
When the first visuals of the bloody brawl in Ladakh emerged on Weibo, a user posting the video noted that the Chinese media does not report such news because China usually wins conflicts with India.
When a narrative has been painstakingly built that India does not figure in the larger gameplan of China and it has no military or economic capacity to hurt China, the death of even a single PLA soldier is damaging to its posturing as a superior military power.
“It is completely unacceptable for them and raises the obvious question that on one hand, China talks about fighting the big enemy America, and it can’t handle a smaller country like India. If the Indians are announcing casualties, then why are we not?’’
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Migrant from Assam in Mumbai falsifying migrant distress in the city on the day when scores had gathered outside #BandraStation

His office is about 20 minutes from where they had gathered but he still couldn't report on the issue, instead fed us conspiracies

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Not just Arnab, on the same night, top anchors across channels chose not to report accurately on why migrants had gathered outside Bandra depot.

Check this thread out:
Keywords they used: 'Saazish', 'masjid', 'instigated', 'mob', 'CAA', and ya even 'Shaheen Bagh'.

The goal was to tell their viewers that these were not migrants in distress wanting to go back home, this was an anti-Modi, politically-motivated mob that wanted chaos.
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This "maulana" is actually a creation of TV news channels like Republic & Zee News. He's a regular panellist on these channels, brought on to talk about everything under the sun as some sort of a spokesperson for Muslims and Islam. He's not.
The trick is simple. Bring on a person that suits the stereotype of a 'kattar Musalamaan', egg him on to talk nonsense and then ask questions on why Muslims are like this only.

We covered this on TV Newsance.
News channels use a similar format with nutjobs like Ajay Gautam of Hum Hindu to create useless debates around homosexuality being against Hindu culture, etc. The match is fixed to favour nutters from all sides. It's to offer you a Bigg Boss experience every night instead of news
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"In the four days I have spent in North East Delhi, I have seen Hindus and Muslims stand side-by-side and proclaim mutual love and trust. But if you take them into a corner and poke in the right places, the suspicion pours out."

@sighyush's ground report.
newslaundry.com/2020/03/02/ben…
@sighyush Aas Mohammad, 36, is now known as the 'Tahir Hussain' of his locality. He lives in the Hindu-dominated Bhagirathi Vihar in North East Delhi. On the night of February 25, a Muslim mob of 25-30 men occupied his house.
@sighyush They were on the terrace for 3 hrs, pelting stones at the neighbouring homes of the Hindus.

Aas is now desperately trying to fend off allegations of communalism from his neighbours. It hurts more because his neighbours won’t say it to his face; they imply it in their questions.
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