Chinese-language posts are falsely claiming this video shows Indian soldiers celebrating China 'handing over' a contested lake The footage, which actually shows troops commemorating India's independence, was viewed more than 300,000 times in false posts
As tensions between India and China mounted over their disputed Himalayan border, a video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times in posts claiming it showed Indian soldiers celebrating after China"ceded" a contested lake there. However, the footage actually shows troops taking part in an event for the 75th anniversary of India's. AFP found no official reports that China handed over the Pangong Tso lake to India, as of August 22.
"Indian soldiers marched around Pangong Tso lake to celebrate the Chinese People's Liberation Army ceding Pangong Tso lake to India to beg for peace," reads a simplified ChineseThe tweet shows a video, which has more than 290,000 views, of soldiers hoisting the Indian national flag and marching along a lake.lies in the disputed territory along the border between China and India, where the neighbours have engaged in a string of deadly skirmishes in recent years.
In June 2020, Indian and Chinese troops fought a hand-to-hand battle in the contested Ladakh region that left at least 20 Indians and an unspecified number of Chinese forces dead. The increased tensions caused a nosedive in relations between the world's two most populous countries.
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