China's manipulative diplomacy at work: China's MFA hands Hindustan Times a statement claiming China's 1959 claim line is the LAC. HT prints it as top story. But the statement isn't published on MFA's own website. Why? Because it's intended only for Indiansβto help sow confusion.
1. The statement negates the border-management accords or protocols China has signed with India since 1993 to define and confirm the LAC. 2. China has since April 2020 intruded into areas located even beyond its 1959 and 1960 claim lines, demonstrating its ever-expanding claims.
Media manipulation, disinformation and lawfare have become favored tools of the Chinese dictatorship's diplomacy. Look at the paradox: While China has hidden its foreign-ministry statement from its own citizens, India's reaction is publicly available on the Indian MEA's website.
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