“Screenshot of a tweet by Global Times news that mentions Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked Rahul Gandhi for not starting his Yatra from ‘Indian-occupied’ Arunachal Pradesh and instead doing it from Manipur”
Social media posts
Claim dated 16 Jan 2024.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
Global Times has not posted any such news on their ‘X’ handle. Also, none of the mainstream media outlets reported about any such statement by Xi Jinping thanking Rahul Gandhi for starting from Manipur
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 January 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 17 January 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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