The situation at Doklam, a region abutting the Sikkim India-China border where soldiers of the two nuclear-armed nations have been locked in a two-month standoff, may never spiral out of control. That perhaps cannot be said for Chinese state media, which has been upping the rhetoric meter with each passing day of the Doklam standoff.

Up until now, Chinese media organisations have limited themselves to accusing India and its military and political leaders of lying, duplicity, deceit and being the prime movers behind the high-stakes standoff that has thrown into question New Delhi and Beijing's relationship.

Now, however, Chinese media has gone a step further, unabashedly mocking India in a Twitter video that has undertones of racism in the way it chooses to depict an Indian.

Released by Xinhua News Agency, the official Chinese press agency, the video purports to explain the "seven sins" that India has committed while "illegally trespassing" into Doklam and comes a day after Indian and Chinese troops had a brief, ill-tempered altercation in Ladakh.

The video features a woman who, speaking in English, explains New Delhi's seven supposed sins. The video occasionally cuts to what we are to assume is a character representing India.

In a seeming attempt to make it clear that the actor is impersonating India, the character is seen sporting a turban, an unconvincing faux beard and an even more unconvincing 'Indian' accent.

'SEVEN SINS'

The video, on its own, does not say anything that Chinese media hasn't already said in one of its many rhetoric-laden articles, op-eds and commentaries that have been published since soldiers from the Indian Army and Chinese People's Liberation Army came face-to-face on the Doklam plateau mid-June.

Among other accusations, the video calls out India for being a 'bad neighbour' because "Indian troops carrying weapons and driving bulldozers illegally crossed the delimited boundary into the UNDISPUTED Chinese territory", and says that New Delhi has broken international law by sending Indian Army soldiers to Doklam.

#TheSpark: 7 Sins of India. Its time for India to confess its SEVEN SINS. pic.twitter.com/vb9lQ40VPH - China Xinhua News (@XHNews) August 16, 2017

The video reiterates what state media and the Chinese government have demanded all along - that India unconditionally withdraw its troops from Doklam. The video also repeats the unsubstantiated claim that Bhutan has told China that Doklam is Chinese territory.

The last claim is depicted in the visual form with a comical interplay between the turban-sporting character and another that supposedly represents Bhutan.

FOR AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE?

Towards the end of the video comes a section where the video talks about why China should/will not negotiate with India over Doklam. "Do you negotiate with a robber who had just broken into your house... No, you call 911...", the woman in the video says.

Notably, 911 is an emergency hotline only in North America - China, like India, uses 1 as a prefix for its emergency telephone numbers.

911, however, is perhaps more recognised thanks to its place in pop culture, making the case for an argument that the video is aimed at an international audience and at establishing China's claims on the Doklam matter.

Of course, it could also be a mistake - the video, after all, does misspell the word 'because' in its subtitles.

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