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Chinese state media journalist Shen Shiwei mocks Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman’s Vir Chakra

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Chinese state affiliated mediaperson Shen Shiwei right this moment took to Twitter to mock Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman for getting the Vir Chakra by President of India for his heroics through the February 2019 Balakot Air Strikes as Wing Commander.
Shen Shiwei mocking Abhinandan VarthamanSharing a picture of the then Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman in captivity of Pakistani troopers, who had seemingly assaulted him, Shiwei mocked him for the torture he needed to endure whereas in Pakistan military captivity. Abhinandan gained the Vir Chakra for exhibiting exemplary braveness through the Balakot air strikes that have been launched to destroy terrorist launchpad after the Pulwama terror assault on February 14, 2019. He shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet throughout an aerial fight on February 27, 2019, days after the Pulwama terror assault.
On twenty sixth February 2019, India retaliated with an air strike at terror camps in Balakot. A day later, Pakistan despatched its jets which Wing Commander Varthaman shot down. In the method, he flew his MiG 21 over to Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir. He was then captured by Pakistani forces. Later, a closely edited video of him was launched by Pakistan the place he was proven having tea and ‘complimenting’ the tea served to him. After that, Pakistanis have repeatedly used the ‘tea’ jibe to mock India.
Pakistanis and anti-India individuals spreading propaganda in opposition to Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman
A day after IAF Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman was awarded the Vir Chakra award, ‘journalist’ Michael Kugelman took to Twitter to solid aspersions about India’s success in taking pictures down a Pakistani F-16 jet. Kungelman alleged that Abhinandan taking pictures down Pakistani F-16 was not true. He is a author with of the weekly ‘South Asia Brief’ on Foreign Policy portal. Foreign Policy was on the forefront of spreading misinformation that the US officers ‘counted’ the F-16s that they had given to Pakistan and none of them have been lacking and therefore Abhinandan didn’t shoot down any plane.
However, quickly after the declare was debunked by Pentagon. The US Defence Department additionally distanced itself from the claims made by Foreign Policy. It stated, “As a matter of policy, the Department does not publicly comment on details of government-to-government agreements on end-use monitoring of US-origin defence articles…It is important to note that since January 2018, the United States government has suspended security assistance to Pakistan.”
However, regardless of that, many Pakistanis and such individuals with seemingly vested curiosity have been persevering with to unfold the propaganda in opposition to India. Now, Chinese state media, too, joined the Pakistanis, to mock India. Not shocking, since super funding being pushed into Pakistan by China, Pakistan is kind of on its option to turn out to be a rental state of expansionist China. And makes tactical sense of Chinese state media to maintain humouring Pakistanis.