Details of an Indian Blogger’s Shoestring Travels in China: Two Zero-Budget Trips Spark Nationwide Controversy Over Freeloading

[royalharris]

An Indian blogger with around 1.8 million YouTube subscribers, nicknamed “the freeloading traveler” and “the beggar” by Chinese netizens, entered China twice and planned “zero-budget backpacking” trips with very little cash: 300 yuan on his first visit and 150 yuan on his second. In reality, he allegedly exploited strangers’ goodwill by hitchhiking, begging, and falsifying visa documents. He also edited videos for overseas audiences in ways that portrayed China negatively. After the incidents came to light in July 2026, they triggered a major public backlash, with people in many places spontaneously refusing to assist or welcome him.

 

[royalharris]

People in China have already begun spontaneously boycotting Indians and pressuring the Chinese Embassy in India to reduce the number of visas issued to Indian nationals.

Universities are reducing preferential policies for international students, with admission and treatment based solely on ability and academic performance.

Companies are imposing stricter transaction requirements on Indian businesspeople to guard against fraud.

 

[ety]

For the first 5 months this year, 480 K Indians entered China for various reasons. India issued only about 2000 visas Chinese in 2025, not saying that many Chinese want to travel to India. This is insane, the Chinese gov has to stop this.

 

[PakistanLVR]

For the first 5 months this year, 480 K Indians entered China for various reasons. India issued only about 2000 visas Chinese in 2025, not to saying that many Chinese want to travel to India. This is insane, the Chinese gov has to stop this.

Indians have no shame. They follow the concept of “Izzat” which basically means scamming people and then claim victimhood when confronted. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them are claiming to be Pakistani in order to get preferential treatment from the Chinese, and over extracting benefits and then bragging to other Indians back home. I watch a lot of Pakistanis social media account and it seems most Chinese people on these videos are very friendly towards Pakistan and Pakistanis given the historical relations between the two nations.

Their foreign students are scamming food banks in Canada and all the Indians on PDF are claiming that the food banks are for all people so why shouldn’t they take free stuff when it’s available. The food banks are for needy Canadian citizens, not foreign students.

 

[Yasser76]

Indians have no shame. They follow the concept of “Izzat” which basically means scamming people and then claim victimhood when confronted. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them are claiming to be Pakistani in order to get preferential treatment from the Chinese, and over extracting benefits and then bragging to other Indians back home. I watch a lot of Pakistanis social media account and it seems most Chinese people on these videos are very friendly towards Pakistan and Pakistanis given the historical relations between the two nations.

Problem now is Pakistani travellers may be mistaken for Indians and get backlash

 

[PakistanLVR]

Problem now is Pakistani travellers may be mistaken for Indians and get backlash

Yeah another problem. Best our Chinese friends start asking for these freeloading scums to start showing their passports. I think I saw a video where these “Izzat” seeking Indians were bragging that they claim to be Pakistanis to get free food.

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[Yasser76]

Yeah another problem. Best our Chinese friends start asking for these freeloading scums to start showing their passports. I think I saw a video where these “Izzat” seeking Indians were bragging that they claim to be Pakistanis to get free food.

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Canadians often wear Canadian flag t-Shirts and patches while visiting Europe so they do not get mistaken for Americans. We may need to do the same....

 

[ety]

Indians have no shame. They follow the concept of “Izzat” which basically means scamming people and then claim victimhood when confronted. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them are claiming to be Pakistani in order to get preferential treatment from the Chinese, and over extracting benefits and then bragging to other Indians back home. I watch a lot of Pakistanis social media account and it seems most Chinese people on these videos are very friendly towards Pakistan and Pakistanis given the historical relations between the two nations.

Some Indians are taking free rides and hospitalities in China. Quite a number of them dont follow Chinese rules in the public, such as dumping wastes and urinating on the streets, polluting the enviroment. Chinese are upset in the social media, they want to greatly reduce the number of visas issued to them. Yes, Pakistanis are usually warmly welcomed in China.

 

[PakistanLVR]

Some Indians are taking free rides and hospitalities in China. Quite a number of them dont follow Chinese rules in the public, such as dumping wastes and urinating on the streets, polluting the enviroment. Chinese are upset in the social media, they want to greatly reduce the number of visas issued to them. Yes, Pakistanis are usually warmly welcomed in China.

The “rise” of Indian middle class has basically the story of an uneducated slob falling into a pile of money and start thinking he’s upper class elite. So when he travels he behaves exactly as he does when he was a poor nothing. We’re watching this behavior across the planet with them. They have so shame, no desire to switch their ways, highly arrogance and very very greedy. China needs to limit how many of them are let in. They go to Islamic countries and use very vile language to describe the women there. They’ve done to Iranian women as well as Turkish women. They do this in Nepal too. It’s disgusting behavior, bordering sex tourism minus the sex because not a single woman wants anything to do with them. Even their own indian women chooses foreign men over their own.

 

[Yasser76]

The “rise” of Indian middle class has basically the story of an uneducated slob falling into a pile of money and start thinking he’s upper class elite. So when he travels he behaves exactly as he does when he was a poor nothing. We’re watching this behavior across the planet with them. They have so shame, no desire to switch their ways, highly arrogance and very very greedy. China needs to limit how many of them are let in. They go to Islamic countries and use very vile language to describe the women there. They’ve done to Iranian women as well as Turkish women. They do this in Nepal too. It’s disgusting behavior, bordering sex tourism minus the sex because not a single woman wants anything to do with them. Even their own indian women chooses foreign men over their own.

Also many are not used to strong spirits, when they suddenly realise these drinks are free on long haul planes they go mad and of coruse cannot handle it, hence many incidents on Emirates, Qatar and Etihad. Now on flights to India they restict drinks. Ironically you can have alcohol served freely on flights to Pakistan but obviously very few take it up. Religion plays a massive factor in the behavioral differences between Indians and Pakistanis. Pakistanis may be self entitled and look down on people, but certainly not to the same extent as Indians who think if they have money and have paid they should be treated like royalty

 

[PakistanLVR]

Also many are not used to strong spirits, when they suddenly realise these drinks are free on long haul planes they go mad and of coruse cannot handle it, hence many incidents on Emirates, Qatar and Etihad. Now on flights to India they restict drinks. Ironically you can have alcohol served freely on flights to Pakistan but obviously very few take it up. Religion plays a massive factor in the behavioral differences between Indians and Pakistanis. Pakistanis may be self entitled and look down on people, but certainly not to the same extent as Indians who think if they have money and have paid they should be treated like royalty

I’m hoping that PIA can turn around its fortune so I can fly it instead of the others with bunch of Indians. I feel highly uncomfortable around and looking at them hurts my eyes - which is already weakening at my old age.

 

[Watandar]

Some Indians are taking free rides and hospitalities in China. Quite a number of them dont follow Chinese rules in the public, such as dumping wastes and urinating on the streets, polluting the enviroment. Chinese are upset in the social media, they want to greatly reduce the number of visas issued to them. Yes, Pakistanis are usually warmly welcomed in China.

Is the part about Indian publicly urinating in Chinese street actually true ? I have no love for them but that behavior is usually reserved for the poorest and most uncultured South Asians, who usually don't have money to travel abroad.

 

[ety]

The “rise” of Indian middle class has basically the story of an uneducated slob falling into a pile of money and start thinking he’s upper class elite. So when he travels he behaves exactly as he does when he was a poor nothing. We’re watching this behavior across the planet with them. They have so shame, no desire to switch their ways, highly arrogance and very very greedy. China needs to limit how many of them are let in. They go to Islamic countries and use very vile language to describe the women there. They’ve done to Iranian women as well as Turkish women. They do this in Nepal too. It’s disgusting behavior, bordering sex tourism minus the sex because not a single woman wants anything to do with them. Even their own indian women chooses foreign men over their own.

That's disgusting ! Yes, they often bring their practices in India to the hosting country like China and looking it through their caste prism as shown on some youtubes. Some of those higher class Indians think they are superior to Chinese and try to look down on them and smear China when reporting inside there. Large group of Indians even held unpermitted loud parties with scattering colorful powders as celebration in the public spaces in Nanjing and Chengdu. They were kicked out.

 

[ety]

Is the part about Indian publicly urinating in Chinese street actually true ? I have no love for them but that behavior is usually reserved for the poorest and most uncultured South Asians, who usually don't have money to travel abroad.

Few had been caught on camera actually defecating under a bridge pass in Shenzhen and some were taking baths in China's sacred pristine lakes though the signs say no.