India maintains silence over Chinese provocations on Weibo

NEW DELHI: India seems to be giving a pass to Beijing over two posts on the microblogging site Weibo that showed photos of the bodies of covid victims being cremated in India alongside a rocket launch and a giant hospital in China.

New Delhi seems to be maintaining a silence – at least for now — over what are clearly provocations after the two posts were pulled down over the weekend after protests by Chinese netizens and others.

The text with one of the posts – that aimed to show the contrast between a rocket launch in China to funeral pyres being lit in India — had read: “Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India.”