{"id":71821,"date":"2025-05-15T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/india-blocks-x-accounts-of-chinese-state-media-over-coverage-of-kashmir-crisis"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:54:55","slug":"india-blocks-x-accounts-of-chinese-state-media-over-coverage-of-kashmir-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71821","title":{"rendered":"India blocks X accounts of Chinese state media over coverage of Kashmir crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after Indian officials accused the outlets of spreading Pakistani propaganda and misinformation<\/p>\n<p>The social media accounts of some Chinese state media were blocked inside India on Wednesday, after Indian officials accused the outlets of spreading Pakistani propaganda and misinformation. The move came as India protested over Beijing\u2019s decision to rename some locations in a disputed border territory.<\/p>\n<p>The X accounts of China\u2019s official state news agency Xinhua, and a state-backed nationalistic tabloid, the Global Times, were inaccessible inside India on Wednesday. Turkey\u2019s TRTWorld was also blocked. Both China and Turkey are allies of Pakistan, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/14\/pakistans-use-of-j-10c-jets-and-missiles-exposes-potency-of-chinese-arms\">China providing the bulk of its weapons purchases<\/a>. On Thursday, the Global Times account was restored, reportedly after a legal request.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/15\/india-blocks-x-accounts-of-chinese-state-media-over-coverage-of-kashmir-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after Indian officials accused the outlets of spreading Pakistani propaganda and misinformationThe social media accounts of some Chinese state media were blocked inside India on Wednesday, after Indian officials accused the outlets of spread&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50,62,235,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-india","category-social-media","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71821\/revisions\/71822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}