New Delhi:
India has as soon as once more issued a powerful rebuttal to China’s makes an attempt to rename sure locations in Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing refers to as “Zangnan,” or the southern a part of Tibet. The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA), responding to a contemporary spherical of Chinese language place-naming initiatives, dismissed the train as futile and reiterated India’s stance on the standing of the state.
“We now have seen that China has persevered with its useless and preposterous makes an attempt to call locations within the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Wednesday. “In line with our principled place, we reject such makes an attempt categorically. Artistic naming is not going to alter the simple actuality that Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and can at all times stay an integral and inalienable a part of India,” the Exterior Affairs ministry mentioned in a press release.
China, which claims Arunachal Pradesh as a part of its territory, has usually launched maps with a number of locations throughout the northeastern state renamed. In 2024, China launched a listing of 30 new names of varied locations in Arunachal Pradesh, which India categorically rejected.
The boundary dispute between India and China over Arunachal Pradesh has been a longstanding supply of friction. The area shares a border with China’s Tibet Autonomous Area. Beijing claims the state as a part of historic Tibet, whereas New Delhi has administered it as an integral a part of India since independence in 1947 and the following consolidation of its northeast.
The territorial dispute over Arunachal Pradesh has, lately, been accompanied by issues over using water assets within the area. On the centre of those issues is China’s choice to assemble what is predicted to be the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet’s Medog County-just earlier than the river bends and flows into India because the Siang, and later turns into the Brahmaputra in Assam.