NEW DELHI: India on Sunday firmly rejected China’s renaming of locations in Arunachal Pradesh, calling it a “mischievous try” and asserting that such “baseless narratives can not alter the plain actuality” on floor.“India categorically rejects any mischievous makes an attempt by the Chinese language facet to assign fictitious names to locations which kind a part of the territory of India,” ministry of exterior affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned.“Such makes an attempt by China at introducing false claims and manufacturing baseless narratives can not alter the plain actuality that these locations and territories, together with Arunachal Pradesh, had been, are, and can at all times stay an integral and inalienable a part of India,” he added, responding to media queries.Jaiswal additionally mentioned that the transfer undermines efforts to stabilise ties between the 2 nations. “These actions by the Chinese language facet detract from ongoing efforts to stabilize and normalize India-China bilateral ties. China ought to chorus from actions which inject negativity into relations and undermine efforts to create higher understanding,” he mentioned.That is the sixth time China has renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh in a bid to bolster its declare over the state, which it refers to as ‘Zangnan’. Earlier in Might 2025, India had equally rejected Beijing’s try and rename 27 locations, calling it “preposterous.”China has carried out comparable workouts in 2017, 2021, 2023 and 2024, typically following tensions alongside the border. For instance, the primary such train in 2017 adopted the Dalai Lama’s go to to the state. In 2023, the identical try adopted a G20 assembly that India hosted within the state.The repeated renaming is extensively seen as a part of Beijing’s technique to bolster its territorial claims by way of coercive diplomacy.