Pankaj Pachauri, the Editor in chief and Founder of Go News India, who also acted as an advisor to Manmohan Singh, recently took Twitter to claim sourcelessly that India’s imports from China have increased by 27% between the months of April and August. The tweet reads, "While India shows “red eyes” to China at LAC and invites Quad navies to encircle “the Dragon” India’s imports from China increase 27% between April-August. Business of politics do not come in the way of real business. Never."

However, the fact-checking page of Press Information Bureau took to Twitter to fact-check Pachauri’s claims by saying that, “This claim is #Fake. India's imports from China decreased by 27.63% whereas India's exports to China increased by 27% during April-August”. Pachauri had gotten his facts mixed up because many news reports had already reported the decrease in import rates by 27.63%. The sources which Pachauri used to make these claims are unknown, however, they are highly false.

Even after getting his misinformation fact-checked, Pachauri did not delete his tweet but quoted the original misleading tweet saying that a government functionary has corrected him that it is not the imports that increased by 27% but the exports. He also added that India has tensions with China in the LAC even though the trades have been increasing.