China launched a disinformation campaign targeting Rafale fighter jets, aiming to damage their global reputation after India's use of the jets in May’s Operation Sindoor against Pakistan, according to French military and intelligence sources cited by the Associated Press. Chinese embassies allegedly tried to dissuade countries from purchasing the French aircraft.
00:00And more news coming in. China's Rafale jet treachery stands exposed.
00:05China used diplomats to store Rafale jet sales.
00:09China missiles, air defense failed in operation in Sindhu and resorted then to fakery to malign Rafale jets.
00:17China's covert bit to push its own fighter jets is what has been seen here.
00:22French intelligence busts China's web of lies.
00:26Rafale air supremacy clearly is rattling China here.
00:33French military and intelligence officials have in fact concluded that China deployed its embassies to spread doubts about the performance of premium French-made Rafale fighter jets,
00:45which India used during Operation Sindhu to strike Pakistan in May.
00:52Shivani is getting in more details.
00:54Shivani, pieces of this puzzle really falling into place, exposing how this was in China's interest.
01:01You know, undermining Rafale jets repetition and capabilities to sell its own fakery, isn't it?
01:08Certainly, Steha, now more and more reports are emerging that are showing that how it was a nexus, a collective nexus, not only by Pakistan, but also by China,
01:21to not only run a false narrative against India, but now also against the Dassault Rafale.
01:28And the French agencies have now pointed out that China was actually using and deploying its embassies, the officials in the embassies,
01:36to show that the Rafale jet is incompetent, the performance is not good because, you know, India was using Rafale jets during Operation Sindhu.
01:47And we saw how the Chinese systems failed badly, miserably, including the air defense systems, the missile systems that China had been supplying Pakistan.
01:57So it was actually fearing the loss of its market.
02:01And what it was doing was trying to portray that Rafale was not working well.
02:05And that is what has been now pointed out, Sneha, in this particular report in which the French officials, on the condition of anonymity,
02:14have said that China had been deploying its embassies in a number of countries,
02:18and especially they were trying to dissuade the sale of French Rafale jets.
02:22And instead, they wanted to push their own jets.
02:26And they wanted to show that Rafale is a non-performer while their jets can be superior.
02:31So they were using Operation Sindhu and they were trying to sell their own jets to the country,
02:36and especially Indonesia, which has already ordered the Rafales from France.
02:40So this is the kind of nexus that was running.
02:43And remember, Sneha, while the Operation Sindhu was on, there were fake news items that were being circulated on Global Times.
02:49That happens to be the mouthpiece of China.
02:52They were saying that India has lost Rafales without any information.
02:56This was the wrong information that was being given out.
02:58And now you see the hidden purpose behind all this misinformation that was being carried out by China.
03:05All right. Be with us, Shivani. I'm just going to come back to you for more.
