- Sunday, March 02, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
India’s external affairs ministry has reacted to China’s act of releasing its third set of names for 11 places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which it calls southern part of Tibet, saying it will not affect reality.
Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that it was not the first time that Beijing made such an attempt and that it rejects such a claim “outright”. He also said that Arunachal Pradesh has been and will always be an “integral and inalienable” part of India.
Our response to media queries regarding the renaming of places in Arunachal Pradesh by China:https://t.co/JcMQoaTzK6 pic.twitter.com/CKBzK36H1K
— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) April 4, 2023
“We have seen such reports. This is not the first time China has made such an attempt. We reject this outright. Andhra Pradesh is, has been and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. Attempts to assign invented names will not alter this reality,” Bagchi said.
China’s ministry of civil affairs released the standardised names in Chinese, Tibetan, and Pinyin characters after regulations on geographical names issued by the country’s state council, India Today reported.
The list features precise coordinates for two land areas, as many residential areas, five mountain peaks, and two rivers, besides their subordinate administrative districts.
On Monday, China’s state-run Global Times reported that this is the third batch of standardised geographical names for the northeastern Indian state, issued by China’s civil affairs ministry. The first batch of six places was revealed in 2017 while the second batch of 15 came out in 2021.
On December 9, 2022, troops of India and China clashed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two neighbours after the Chinese troops were accused of violating the LAC in the Yangtse area of Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh and unilaterally change the status quo.
