Beijing
\nIndia on Tuesday reacted sharply to China\u00eds \u00ebrenaming\u00ed of locations in Arunachal Pradesh, a remote region claimed by both countries and located along the 3,488-kilometer Line of Actual Control that separates the two neighbors.
\nChina\u00eds Ministry of Civil Affairs on Saturday released 30 new names in the disputed border region, which it calls Zangnan and considers a part of Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese outlet Global Times reported. The renaming covered 11 residential areas, 12 mountains, four rivers, a lake, a mountain pass and a piece of land, with 30 new names in all given in Tibetan and pinyin, the Roman alphabet version of Mandarin Chinese.
\nBeijing previously released the first list of \u00ecstandardised names\u00ee of six places in the disputed territory in 2017, a second list of 15 places in 2021, followed last year by another list, this one renaming 11 places.
\n\u00ecChina has persisted with its senseless attempts to rename places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. We firmly reject such attempts,\u00ee India\u00eds foreign ministry\u00eds spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. On Monday Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar termed China\u00eds renaming of the locations \u00ecsenseless.\u00ee He said New Delhi firmly rejected such attempts and sees Arunachal Pradesh as an \u00ecintegral and inalienable part of India.\u00ee
\nIndia\u00eds reaction this time was similar to its stance last year when Beijing released a new \u00ebstandard map\u00ed that showed Zangnan and the Aksai Chin plateau as parts of China. New Delhi rejected the map and lodged a \u00ecstrong protest\u00ee against China \u00ecthrough diplomatic channels.\u00ee
\nThe latest confrontation comes amid strained ties between the two nuclear-powered Asian giants. Beijing last month criticized a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Zangnan\/Arunachal Pradesh to inaugurate a tunnel, which could hasten a deployment of Indian troops to the countries\u00ed agreed frontier. New Delhi hit back, stating that \u00ecrepeating baseless arguments […] does not lend such claims any validity.\u00ee
\nNonetheless, the two nations held a fresh round of border talks last week. The discussions yielded no major breakthroughs despite both countries expressing a commitment to achieving complete disengagement and resolving the remaining issues. Tensions at the India-China border escalated in 2020 after a clash in the Galwan Valley caused fatalities on both sides. The Indian Army has since maintained a high level of combat readiness while the government ramped up infrastructure development in the high-altitude region, matching upgrades implemented by China.
\nMeanwhile, Washington has recently waded into the controversy when it recognized Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and \u00ecstrongly opposed\u00ee China\u00eds \u00ecunilateral attempts to advance territorial claims.\u00ee The Chinese Foreign Ministry \u00ecstrongly deplored\u00ee and \u00ecfirmly opposed\u00ee the US comments. A Global Times editorial earlier this month claimed that US\u00ed move seems to be helping India \u00econ the surface,\u00ee but that, in reality\u00eeit is handing India a tempting poison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beijing India on Tuesday reacted sharply to China\u00eds \u00ebrenaming\u00ed of locations in Arunachal Pradesh, a remote region claimed by both countries and located along the 3,488-kilometer Line of Actual Control that separates the two neighbors. China\u00eds Ministry of Civil Affairs on Saturday released 30 new names in the disputed border region, which it calls Zangnan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n