My question is why is India esp it's government still being allowed to say stuff and have people assume they are not lying? They didn't get caught once but twice now. And a third time since that report showed in 1962, they knew what they were doing would provoke China but claimed China backstabbed them. Why is India still allowed to be assumed to have credibility? They should be automatically assumed to have less credibility than western programs that claim to know about North Korea.
In this case, I blame the west more since they are the ones enabling this behaviour.
They have to do that. The Indian government has no choice but to control their own population via disinformation.
Disinformation seems to me usually is always directed against your own population.
Look at President Trump this past week. He claims the United States and China are talking about some trade deal.
The words of the president hold weight, that is something he learned this time. So everyone listens to what he says, but no one talks about why this tariff plan is kind of gone off script.
Trump peddling disinformation about China, is to not have people inside the US attack him for it.