Hong Kong, June 18: In a bid to show solidarity with India following the violent face-off broke out between India and China, Taiwan's one of the leading English news portal, Taiwan News on Wednesday, published an illustration showing the Hindu god Lord Rama battling a Chinese dragon.

 

Calling the illustration “photo of the day” on its website, Taiwan News captioned it as, “India’s Rama poised to slay China’s dragon over Ladakh border dispute”. The news item with the photo of Rama slaying the dragon with the caption ‘Rama fighting dragon’ has been viewed more than 1.5K times on the portal.

 

 

The illustration carried the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu, Lord Ram, drawing a bow and arrow against a Chinese Dragon along with the message “We conquer. We kill”. This illustration was reportedly posted on the Hong Kong social media site LIHKG. Indian netizens thanked HoSaiLei for sharing the illustration and expressed their support to the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong.

According to the report, Hong Kong Twitter user HoSaiLei wrote "An Indian friend has already finished this exquisite Sino-Indian war poster," while sharing it on Tuesday. Within 21 hours, the post had gained 861 likes, 300 retweets, and 34 comments, the report said.

 

 

China and Taiwan have a troubled relationship. The former has always self-governed since separating from China in 1948, much to the chagrin of the people’s party. It has often pressured governments worldwide to refer to Taiwan as Chinese territory and managed to do so with several companies including Paramount. China has strengthened its claims on Taiwan and has considered it as a part of its territory.

 

It has recently threatened to annex the country by military force if the island resists unification indefinitely. The threats came in the wake of Taiwan’s request to attend WHO meet and amidst growing mistrust among several countries towards China for its initial mishandling of the coronavirus crisis.

China recently passed a controversial national security law that chip away at the autonomy previously enjoyed by Hong Kong and enables extradition of wrongdoers from Hong Kong to Mainland China. The city was convulsed with demonstrations and protests much of the last year but the onset of coronavirus crisis dampened the protests. Taking the cover of the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party quickly passed the national security law on the pretext of restoring law and order in the semi-autonomous region.