{"id":520,"date":"2020-02-06T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=520"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:08:58","slug":"2016-video-of-chinese-premier-visiting-a-muslims-mosque-interpreted-as-a-current-visit-in-the-wake-of-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/2016-video-of-chinese-premier-visiting-a-muslims-mosque-interpreted-as-a-current-visit-in-the-wake-of-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Chinese President visit a Muslim mosque recently? Here\u2019s the truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As per the snapshots provided by the World Health Organization, the number of confirmed cases of novel Coronavirus is almost 25,000 with close to 500 deaths due to the deadly Coronavirus (2019-nCov). As recovery levels are now surpassing the number of deaths, China\u2019s president Xi Jinping took to state TV on Wednesday (5th February) to say he is confident of containing this outbreak. This announcement came in the wake of criticism against Xi Jingping for being absent amidst tall claims of him directing the whole response program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this backdrop, we found a Facebook post by \u201cMohamed Roshan Razak<\/a>\u201d from Sri Lanka with the caption \u201cChina president xi jinping visited masjid and request Muslims for dua in present crisis country going through. We need your help.\u201d with a video of Chinese president visiting a Muslim mosque as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the video Chinese premier is seen shaking hands with Muslim devotees inside a mosque and we found a number of posts with similar narrative posted worldwide over past few days as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we did not hear or read of such a visit by Chinese President to a Muslim mosque in news, we decided to check truth behind these video posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In order to verify this claim we did a Yandex reverse image search on the video frames and the search results yielded few posts from 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While inspecting the first link we found an article from July 2016 which states, \u201cChinese President Xi Jinping paid a special visit to the Xincheng Mosque in Yinchuan City Tuesday morning, during his current fact-finding tour of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China.\u201d A Youtube video link from CCTV News Agency, component of CGTN (China Global Television Network) is provided in the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We inspected the original video post and found that CCTV has posted the video on 20 July 2016 with the same narrative. Below is the original video posted by CCTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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