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  • 2020-11-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Four-year-old video of Chinese air raid siren circulates in misleading posts about standoff in India's Ladakh (en)
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  • A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in posts that claim it shows a super loudspeaker that the Chinese military is deploying against Indian soldiers in Ladakh. The claim is misleading: the video is actually four-year-old footage of a Chinese air-raid siren. The video was published here on Twitter on September 24, 2020. It has been viewed more than 230,000 times. It shows a wheeled machine playing a loud sound as it spins. The caption says: The Chinese army uses this super loud speaker to play music at the Indian military camp in Ladakh! A large number of Indian soldiers’ eardrums were injured and vomiting. A screenshot, taken on November 11, 2020, of the misleading post. Thousands of Chinese and Indian troops have been involved in a face-off since May 2020 in India’s Ladakh region, along the 3,500-kilometre frontier, which has never been properly demarcated. Both countries announced a positive consensus had been reached in June, but tensions continue to flare between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, according to this AFP report. Identical videos were also published on Facebook here , here and here , on Twitter here , here , here and here , on YouTube here and here , and on Reddit here , alongside similar claims. However, the claim is misleading. A reverse image search on Google found the same video published here on YouTube with the title LIONKING Defender Siren on March 30, 2016. A screenshot, taken on November 12, 2020, of the YouTube video. The description under the video reads: The largest air-raid siren in the world. Produced by Taizhou LionKing Signal Co.,Ltd. According to Collins Dictionary, air-raid sirens are typically used as a warning to an emergency population when there is danger approaching. Taizhou LionKing Signal Co.,Ltd. is a China-based safety protection products manufacturer, specialising in various Hand operated, Industrial Motor Sirens [and] Large Electromechanical Sirens. The same air-raid siren seen in the video in the misleading post can be seen here on the company website. A screenshot of the air defense alarm product from the Lion King company. The product description reads, in part: The defender's air defense alarm...has a wide range of applications and can be used for life-saving occasions or cable installation and wiring of power systems or anti-terrorism occasions or capture of drones. The misleading post was also debunked here by an Indian fact-checking organisation NewsMeter on September 29, 2020. (en)
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