India Again Arrests a "Chinese Spy": This Time It's a Seagull
Recently, the Indian military has been troubled by a seagull.
Here's the situation: On December 16, the Indian Coast and Ocean Police discovered a seagull carrying a Chinese GPS tracker near the naval base in Karnataka (where the "Vikramaditya" aircraft carrier was moored).
Because the location where the seagull was found was quite sensitive, local authorities, forestry officials, and navy police all joined in to conduct a thorough inspection, putting on a big show of "China sending seagulls as spies."
Although the Indian forestry department eventually confirmed that the tracker on the seagull was simply a common tracker used for studying bird migration routes (the seagull has now been handed over to the Indian forestry department), it had no spy function. However, Indian security agencies still insisted on "continuing to verify details" and "confirming that there is no security risk."
This is not the first time India has been so paranoid. Last year, there was a similar joke: At that time, Indian police released a pigeon that had been "detained" for 8 months, and the reason for its detention was only that the pigeon's leg ring had Chinese characters engraved on it — but in fact, this pigeon was actually a racing pigeon from Taiwan, and India was just one stop in its world competition.
From the pigeons of the past to the seagulls today, it is not difficult to see that India is extremely suspicious of anything with a "Chinese" label, even to the point of being overly cautious — this reflexive suspicion, on the surface, appears to be a sensitivity to security, but in reality, it reveals India's deep-seated hostility toward China: Because India always views China with a biased perspective, it naturally becomes suspicious of seagulls and pigeons flying in the sky.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1851934107995148/
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