The videos reportedly mock India’s living conditions, sanitation and food habits, and have been surfacing since May 2026
India on Tuesday condemned attempts by Chinese vloggers to portray slums in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka as locations in New Delhi, calling the exercise unfortunate and urging action against those responsible.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at the weekly briefing that the ministry had seen the media reports. Efforts by foreign elements to portray parts of Dhaka as Delhi, he said, only undermine the credibility of the actors involved and of those behind them. “We urge authorities concerned to take appropriate action against them,” he added.
The remarks followed an investigation by Bangladesh’s Prothom Alo, which reported that Chinese nationals and vloggers have been filming in Dhaka’s slums and presenting the footage as New Delhi. Local residents in Uttara’s Sector 12 and the adjoining Tekpara area estimate that more than 150 Chinese nationals have been filming there, according to the newspaper.
The videos are streamed on Chinese social media platforms and reportedly carry derogatory remarks about India’s living conditions, sanitation, food habits and poverty. Reports of such content from Dhaka have been emerging since May 2026.
Professor Srikanth Kondapalli, a China expert at Jawaharlal Nehru University, said such vloggers also travel to countries including Indonesia and Vietnam, with the sole aim of highlighting income inequality and other problems.
The reports do not say whether the vloggers are acting on any official direction, and the MEA did not name the Chinese government in its remarks.
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