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NEW DELHI: This was one warfare that has backfired on China. Days after 150 Chinese vloggers posted videos of dirty Bangladeshi areas showing them as New Delhi, the Indian and global travellers called out China and posted the "true dirty picture" of poverty, fifth and failed governance of the country that calls itself a superpower, on social media.

Taglines #Chini Chini Chow Chow, #China and #ChinaExposed are trending on social media with people posting videos of poor life quality, crumbling infrastructure, poverty, filthy hostels, beaches, cities, exposing the Chinese propaganda and the contrast between China in reel and real.

Aric Chen, New York based independent analyst posted a video of a Chinese locality saying, “The real China under communism that the CCP doesn’t want the world to see.” The video had garbage filled roads and sewer pipes housing poor people. “Scenes from prosperous China in 2026: Guangdong bridge tunnels: the hottest new luxury housing for young people. A scene you will never see on Chinese television or in pro-Communist Party international propaganda.”

Another user posted videos of people sleeping on roadsides saying, “Welcome to Shenzhen, China ! Shenzhen’s latest luxury: free sidewalk suites and public toilet penthouses. Fully booked every night!”

Another video showed Chinese women collecting used oil from garbage bin with a comment. “China reuses oil to reduce wastage!”

“China and Pakistan share the same playbook of repression, propaganda and intimidation. The only difference? China has better drones, deeper pockets and a billion bots shouting "Superpower" while hiding the cracks beneath the façade,” wrote Nguyen Ho, foreign policy analyst, on X.

“Welcome Chini Chini Chow Chow. Since Chow vloggers are busy passing Bangladesh off as Delhi, perhaps it's time to return the favour with a little reality check from their own backyard. You all have witnessed the high-speed beautiful railways of China. Here is the slow rail of China specially for poor people,” another X user said while posting a video of goats travelling in trains.

“Welcome to Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley. GDP: Over $550 Billion • 340 Fortune Global 500 companies have branches in Shenzhen. Yet, behind the skyscrapers and tech wealth, this is how people live on the streets. Superpower on paper, stark reality on the pavement,” wrote another netizen on X with a video of a city that has no concrete road.

Meanwhile, a user posted one of the “documentaries” made by the Chinese vloggers that showed poor and dirty areas of Dhaka and said "New Delhi has landfills so high that they are Mount Everest of New Delhi” and that they put up warning signs so planes don’t crash into the garbage”. Without knowing that Ganges doesn’t flow through Delhi, the video said “Ganges = free sewage buffet: Mother River of India, used for bathing, laundry, cooking, peeing, and pooping. E. coli levels in the millions, restaurants allegedly cook with it, tourists get amoebic dysentery. 40% of farmland and half the population depends on it, factories dump waste, 70% of surface water is undrinkable… yet Indians keep drinking it happily… Poor people living off the garbage. Scavengers dig through the mountains for scrap metal…India produces way more trash than it can process…Cleaning India up is harder than landing on Mars.”


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