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PREVIEW: GUEST NAME: Sadanand Dhume SUMMARY: John Batchelor and Sadanand Dhume discuss the "false narrative" of an India-China coalition. Dhume attributes this to "Chinese agitprop" and, significantly, "Russian agitprop." He emphasizes that Russia, levera

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW:
GUEST NAME: Sadanand Dhume
SUMMARY: John Batchelor and Sadanand Dhume discuss the "false narrative" of an India-China coalition. Dhumeattributes this to "Chinese agitprop" and, significantly, "Russian agitprop." He emphasizes that Russia, leveraging its Soviet superpower past, remains the most sophisticated player in propaganda across the developing world, including South Asia, even surpassing China.
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0:00.0

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0:22.7

colleagues Sadan Dumae of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. He writes the East Disease column.

0:27.9

He's at the American Enterprise Institute, observing who is driving the narrative, the false narrative,

0:35.0

the absurd narrative that India and China are forming a coalition or a partnership

0:40.4

after a handshake at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was photographed and pictured around the world.

0:48.5

Sadan has some very good suspicions.

0:51.9

Much more of this tonight about the false face of India and China working together.

0:59.0

I think there are a few things going on. There's a certain amount of Chinese agitprop. There's also,

1:03.5

let's not forget, Russian adjutop. You know, in many parts of the developing world, including in

1:09.5

South Asia, I would say that the non-Western

1:12.8

country that plays the propaganda game in the most sophisticated way, even today in 2025,

1:20.0

it's not China, it's Russia.

1:21.8

And it's partly because the Russians have a memory of doing that, going back to the time

1:26.7

when they were a superpower and there were the Soviet Union. So there's some of the, you know, you saw a lot of doing that, going back to the time when they were a superpower

1:27.8

when there was a Soviet Union.

1:29.6

So there's some of the, you know,

1:30.6

you saw a lot of this in Russian media outlets,

1:33.9

you know, places like Sputnik.

1:37.6

Yeah.

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