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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 12:52 IST
Last week, the social media platform X said that it had started blocking 8,000 accounts in India following executive orders from the government
Turkey and China are all-weather allies of Pakistan (Photo: Representation)
The official X accounts of Chinese mouthpiece– Global Times and Xinhua news agency– and Turkish broadcaster TRT World have been blocked in India, days after similar action was taken against several Pakistani handles. However, the websites of these media outlets were still visible in the country.
Indians are calling for a boycott of countries, including Turkey and Azerbaijan, for supporting Pakistan after the terror attack in Pahalgam left 26 dead.
The action against X handles came days after the Indian embassy in Beijing called out Chinese media for spreading unverified claims about India’s Operation Sindoor against terrorists based in China’s all-weather ally Pakistan.
“Dear @globaltimesnews, we would recommend you verify your facts and cross-examine your sources before pushing out this kind of dis-information," the embassy said in a post on May 7.
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Last week, a news report by China Daily falsely claimed that at least three Indian jets had crashed in Kashmir. The fact-check unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB)debunked the claim and said that the accompanying image in the story is from an earlier incident in 2019.
It is worth noting that Pakistan used Chinese drones and missiles to attack Indian cities after Indian armed forces struck nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and PoK.
Amid the heightened tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China will continue to stand firmly by Pakistan in upholding its “sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national independence".
Earlier in the day, India hit out at China and rejected its attempts to rename some places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying such “preposterous" attempts will not alter the “undeniable" reality that the state “was, is, and will" always remain an integral part of India.
“We have noticed that China has persisted with its vain and preposterous attempts to name places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
“We reject such attempts categorically. Creative naming will not alter the undeniable reality that Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India," he added.
Last week, the social media platform X said that it had started blocking 8,000 accounts in India following executive orders from the government.
In a post on X’s Global Government Affairs handle, the platform said it received executive orders from the Indian government requiring it to block over 8,000 accounts in the country “subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees".
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