Chinese vloggers livestream and record from slum areas in Dhaka while presenting the footage as scenes from New Delhi, prompting criticism in India. Multiple outlets report that the videos show vloggers filming in impoverished neighbourhoods and, in some cases, entering people’s homes, while claiming they are broadcasting from India.
The coverage is framed as an alleged coordinated “anti-India” campaign in which Dhaka locations are passed off as Indian ones. Context across reports centres on the mismatch between where the vloggers are physically located and the places they claim to be filming.
Outlets differ mainly in how they lead and the specific emphasis. Some foreground the political condemnation and the “campaign” framing, while others focus on the “bizarre” or deceptive nature of the videos and the act of livestreaming from Dhaka. One report repeats the same core details as another, including the claim that vloggers enter homes while saying “This is New Delhi.”
