Fact-checkers found that the footage was posted on Instagram on October 1, 2026, by the user sabbath_thapa, who regularly shares travel content from Sikkim. The post shows white JAC cargo trucks with Chinese number plates moving along the road near the Nathu La pass, while tourists stand beside parked cars. Its caption describes the scene as Chinese vehicles at the Indo-Tibet border at Nathu La and tags it with #trade. The post drew about 59,800 likes. India and China resumed border trade through Nathu La on August 1, 2026, after it was suspended in 2020, and goods vehicles cross the pass to the designated trade marts under agreed arrangements. The trucks seen in the video are part of this regulated trade, not a military incursion or a breach of Indian territory. Taking routine border trade footage out of context to suggest Chinese control over Indian land is misleading, so the original source of such clips should be checked before they are shared.