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A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Weibo which claim it shows a clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers at the border between the two countries in mid-June. The posts claim 20 Indian people died and 60 Chinese died. The claim is false; the video has circulated online since at least late May 2020; media reports of a clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the Himalayan frontier on June 16 stated that at least 20 Indian soldiers died, but did not mention any Chinese casualties. The video was published here on Twitter on June 17, 2020. It has been viewed more than 50,000 times. The 19-second footage is filmed near a lake in a mountainous area and shows a group of soldiers shouting and throwing rocks. The video, captioned in both simplified Chinese and English characters, translates to English as: World war III Today's stone fight at the China-Indian border. An Indian army colonel was said to be killed. 20 Indian people died. 60 Chinese died with several injured. A screenshot taken on June 18, 2020, of the misleading video posted by Twitter user @ChloeLi04740401 The same footage was also shared alongside similar claims on Facebook here , on YouTube here and on Weibo here . On June 16, at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese border troops, as AFP reported here . However, the claim about the footage is false. A reverse image search of keyframes extracted from the footage found this longer video published on YouTube on May 31, 2020. The same footage can be seen from the YouTube video’s one-minute and 36-second mark. Below is a screenshot comparison between the misleading footage (L) and the YouTube video (R): Screenshot comparison between the misleading footage (L) and the YouTube video (R) The same video was also published here and here on YouTube in late May 2020. ETtoday, a Taiwanese news site, published screenshots from the footage here on June 2, 2020. The article’s traditional Chinese-language headline translates to English as: Zhao Lijian responded to the border conflict between China and India: Overall stable and controllable / Can properly solve two countries' problem. The article reads in part: Recently, a video supposedly showing a group of People's Liberation Army soldiers being attacked by another group of Indian soldiers in Pangong Tso has been widely spread on the Internet, which shows that the conflict between China and Indian has intensified again. Pangong Tso is a lake that runs across the territories of both India and China. Screenshots of the ETtoday article The video was also cited in Indian media in May 2020; for example by Indian newspaper ThePrint here and Indian television channel CNN-News18 here . Indian Army said the video was not authenticated, according to both reports.
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