Chinese state media outlets have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its achievements this week. With the celebrations, the Chinese state media showcased video packages of a fighter plane boasting the progress of the J-10 fighter plane. 

What’s odd is that the video package showed a video that was taken from the Tejas trials. The video was also manipulated with a filter where the video was cooler or had a bluish tint than the original Tejas trial footage.

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Having said that, Indian Twitter users were quick to catch the similarities between the two videos and came to the conclusion that the video shared by CGTN, was indeed the trial footage of the Tejas fighter. 

CGTN shared a video profiling Fei Dong, a pilot of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, who flies the J-10 fighter. It is considered to be one of the most important fighters of the PLAAF fleet. In fact, Chinese experts have also used the progress of the J-10 to ridicule the development progress of India’s Tejas fighter craft. 

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The video, in question, shows the aircraft dropping a laser-guided bomb which was suspiciously similar to the Tejas trial video. It has now been confirmed that CGTN used a trial video of the Tejas fighter from 2013 during an exercise at Pokhran. Both videos showed the identical position of the laser-guided bomb and the pylon on which it was being held. 

According to The Week the clip also showed the Israeli origin Litening laser designator pod, which the Tejas was using during the trial. It is worth pointing out that China does not use the same designator pod on any of its fighter aircraft as of now.

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If you want to check out the two videos for yourself, here are the two videos for comparison. CGTN deleted the video as soon as the plagiarism was found, however somebody downloaded the video before it was taken down.

CGTN Video: 

Original Tejas Trial Video: 

This is not the first time the Chinese military has used borrowed video clips for its own propaganda videos. Last year, it was found that the PLAAF was found using clips from Hollywood movies including The Hurt Locker, The Rock and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in its propaganda videos. 

Source: The Week 

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