NEW DELHI: With China enterprise one other train to rename locations in Arunachal Pradesh, India has categorically rejected “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”. In an announcement, ministry of exterior affairs (MEA) stated such actions detract from the continuing efforts to stabilise and normalise India-China ties. Govt additional stated that China ought to chorus from strikes which inject negativity into relations. Beijing has given Chinese language names to 23 locations in Arunachal in what’s the sixth such train up to now 10 years to bolster its declare over the Indian state it calls Zangnan. “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,” stated MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. India’s response additionally adopted stories from Beijing that China had arrange a brand new county in its Xinjiang province, apparently to ramp up safety alongside the slender Wakhan Hall to curb infiltration of Uyghur separatist militants. A PTI report stated the county named Cenling is positioned close to the Karakoram mountain vary and near the borders with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan, underscoring its strategic significance. That is the third new county established by China in Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim Uyghur area, in simply over a yr. India had final yr lodged a protest with China over creation of Hean and Hekang counties, stating that elements of their jurisdiction fall inside Ladakh. China has up to now renamed locations in Arunachal Pradesh 5 occasions – in 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. On the final event – in 2025 – India had described the train as preposterous, saying that inventive naming won’t alter the plain actuality that Arunachal Pradesh stays an integral and inalienable a part of India. China claims not simply Tawang in Arunachal however successfully the complete state, saying it is part of south Tibet, even because the Tibetan govt-in-exile holds that Arunachal Pradesh is part of India. China cites examples just like the second-most essential Tibetan Buddhism monastery being in Tawang and the sixth Dalai Lama being born there to again its declare.