India condemns the latest Chinese move to name several locations in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The epicenter of this latest incident, the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, has been the victim of Chinese nomenclature, which is about to be bestowed on several places by Beijing.
New Delhi resoundingly ruled out and termed the move as “vain and preposterous,” while stating such actions cannot shift the position on the border.
Firm Rejection in New Delhi
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), through an official statement, clarified that as per India’s principled position, China has been consistently attempting these, but in a counterproductive manner. The spokesperson stated at this point of time, “named arefined will not change the fact of reality that Arunachal Pradesh has been, and will be up to its dying breath, an inseparable part of India.
China’s Demands and Recent Activities
China calls Arunachal Pradesh “Zangnan” or southern Tibet region and shows behaviours of unilaterally denoting place names in the state. The latest comes after Beijing also released earlier this year a list of standardized geographical names befor eon behalf of its territorial demands.
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Fanning Border Incidents
For New Delhi, this renaming exercise is nothing but a provocative move to heighten the already high-tempo conflict along the un-demarcated Line in parts of the North-East. It highlights the aggravated territorial clashes that exist between the two nations and creates a rift in their bilateral ties, further complicated by recent clashes near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in India.
In India, these fake place names have no historical grounding, nor are they dictated by International law.
What China is doing regularly is considered as its territorial claims via cartographic aggression, again and again. Pushy unilateral moves against China erode the peace and stability in the border areas and hurt trust between India and China.
