More than 150 Chinese nationals have reportedly been filming and livestreaming from economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, while falsely presenting the locations as parts of New Delhi, India, according to multiple reports. The streamers also made disparaging remarks about Indian living standards, sanitation, food habits and poverty, the reports said, raising concerns about deliberate geographical distortion and the use of deceptive online content to create negative perceptions of India among international audiences.
The activity has reportedly been concentrated in Dhaka’s Tekpara and Uttara areas for several months, with streamers active from early morning until late at night. On November 1, a Chinese woman identified as “Mianmian,” who said she was from China’s Sichuan province, livestreamed from beside a canal in Uttara Sector 12 and presented the area to her audience as New Delhi, according to Bangladeshi daily Prothom Alo.
“This is New Delhi. Their homes are extremely dirty. There isn’t even a fan inside the tin-roofed houses. This place is quite underdeveloped, dirty and unhygienic, and the law-and-order situation is poor,” Prothom Alo quoted her as saying.
In another instance, a Chinese national livestreamed from tea stalls in Tekpara and said the tea consumed by locals was made using “cow urine.” “Look, they are drinking tea. Do you know what kind of tea this is? This is cow urine tea. They drink cow urine tea,” Prothom Alo quoted him as saying.
The footage also included derogatory comments about residents’ lifestyles, with repeated references to poor hygiene, inadequate sanitation and substandard living conditions. Reports of Chinese content creators recording videos in Dhaka’s underprivileged neighbourhoods have been emerging since May 2026, according to reports.
The recurring pattern of filming in the same low-income areas, together with allegations of geographical misrepresentation and intrusive filming, has raised concerns about attempts to undermine India’s image internationally. The reports said the developments point to a coordinated anti-India campaign, arguing that the issue is not merely the recording of impoverished neighbourhoods but the calculated misrepresentation of locations in another country as parts of India, combined with disparaging remarks intended to influence how international audiences perceive Indian society.
Original Source: https://tripurachronicle.in/world-news/chinese-vloggers-misrepresent-dhakas-impoverished-neighbourhoods-as-new-delhi-make-disparaging-remarks-about-india/
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Publish Date: 2026-11-10 16:18:00
