Why India Takes A Backseat To China In Media Coverage

[onebyone]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gesture after a

press conference following talks in Berlin, on May 30, 2017 (TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian social media accounts were buzzing in May after a photo emerged of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering his hand for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to shake, only for Merkel to reject it with a pointed finger.

The amused realized that Merkel, speaking with Modi at the G-20 Summit, was simply pointing him to where cameramen had setup for a photoshoot, the same mistake Modi made with Merkel three years earlier. The furious, however, saw it as an insult. Some extrapolated it to be an indication of how Europe’s informal leader views India.

Others questioned, wrongly, why Germany’s media had ignored Modi’s visit. It hadn’t. The German news portal Deutsche Welle published at least four reports before and during Modi’s visit. And most of Germany’s leading publications covered his visit. But it was certainly an aberration: Modi’s visit to Germany in 2015 garnered less media coverage than this year’s trip. The feeling that India gets overlooked by Europe, including by the continent’s media, is not unfounded, especially when compared to the coverage China receives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...seat-to-china-in-media-coverage/#4801e5024c31

 

[Raphael]

Looks like she's telling the tea vendor to fetch her some refreshments

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

As I said so many time, India is just so irrelevant.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Is there any reason why it shouldn't?

 

[Levina]

As I said so many time, India is just so irrelevant.

If India was irrelevant to you then you would not have bothered to comment here.



On topic:

India doesn't crave for publicity. We do not have to market ourselves to get accepted by others.
Utter one name- MODI and everyone in the audience will know you're talking about an Indian.
India btw is the only country to have an ocean named after itself.

Not so irrelevant after all!

 

[AViet]

If India was irrelevant to you then you would not have bothered to comment here.



On topic:

India doesn't crave for publicity. We do not have to market ourselves to get accepted by others.
Utter one name- MODI and everyone in the audience will know you're talking about an Indian.
India btw is the only country to have an ocean named after itself.

Not so irrelevant after all!

Really? It is not true. I still vividly remember the year of 2008, the whole of India boiled when Obama, the newly selected president of the USA, chose to visit China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia in his first foreign visit but not India.

Of all countries that I know, India seems to be the most sensitive to outsider's opinions. It has the habit of begging other countries to respect it, forgetting that respect must be gained, sometimes by blood, not begged.

 

[Dungeness]

If India was irrelevant to you then you would not have bothered to comment here.

On topic:

India doesn't crave for publicity. We do not have to market ourselves to get accepted by others.
Utter one name- MODI and everyone in the audience will know you're talking about an Indian.
India btw is the only country to have an ocean named after itself.

Not so irrelevant after all!

 

[Levina]

his first foreign visit but not India.

And when he finally arrived in India, it was our REPUBLIC day. Lol
I think he was looking for the right moment to land in India.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

If India was irrelevant to you then you would not have bothered to comment here.

lol have you seen the picture that merkel shown Modi exit over Donglang

 

[Keel]

She showed him where to wash his hands.
Brilliant Merkel.

 

[Levina]

lol have you seen the picture that merkel shown Modi exit over Donglang

Oh! Pictures remind me, recently few Chinese tourists were arrested in Germany for doing the Nazi salute.
That was pretty naive of them to have done that especially because Germany has strict laws on hate speech and symbols linked to Hitler and the Nazis.
Very unfortunate incident!

Heard other Chinese tourists have been warned already. True?

 

[faithfulguy]

Really? It is not true. I still vividly remember the year of 2008, the whole of India boiled when Obama, the newly selected president of the USA, chose to visit China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia in his first foreign visit but not India.

Of all countries that I know, India seems to be the most sensitive to outsider's opinions. It has the habit of begging other countries to respect it, forgetting that respect must be gained, sometimes by blood, not begged.

You must be a Pakistani...To Indians

To Indians, the whole world support India except only Pakistani and their Chinese friends.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Oh! Pictures remind me, recently few Chinese tourists were arrested in Germany for doing the Nazi salute.
That was pretty naive of them to have done that especially because Germany has strict laws on hate speech and symbols linked to Hitler and the Nazis.
Very unfortunate incident!

Heard other Chinese tourists have been warned already. True?

you compare your leader to our tourists, surely Indian leader is as irrelevant as our tourist

 

[nair]

This time we have made global times to do What ever times now, republic and zee tv was expected to do.... But honestly they have not disappointed them.... In fact They have realised that global times is way ahead in jingoism and media trolling....

 

[Chellam]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gesture after a

press conference following talks in Berlin, on May 30, 2017 (TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian social media accounts were buzzing in May after a photo emerged of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering his hand for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to shake, only for Merkel to reject it with a pointed finger.

The amused realized that Merkel, speaking with Modi at the G-20 Summit, was simply pointing him to where cameramen had setup for a photoshoot, the same mistake Modi made with Merkel three years earlier. The furious, however, saw it as an insult. Some extrapolated it to be an indication of how Europe’s informal leader views India.

Others questioned, wrongly, why Germany’s media had ignored Modi’s visit. It hadn’t. The German news portal Deutsche Welle published at least four reports before and during Modi’s visit. And most of Germany’s leading publications covered his visit. But it was certainly an aberration: Modi’s visit to Germany in 2015 garnered less media coverage than this year’s trip. The feeling that India gets overlooked by Europe, including by the continent’s media, is not unfounded, especially when compared to the coverage China receives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...seat-to-china-in-media-coverage/#4801e5024c31

I have no idea why some guys are jumping here and there because single photo,

this happens to trump and few more world leaders