{"id":73043,"date":"2024-03-19T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-says-chinas-claims-over-arunachal-pradesh-state-absurd-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:19:03","slug":"india-says-chinas-claims-over-arunachal-pradesh-state-absurd-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-says-chinas-claims-over-arunachal-pradesh-state-absurd-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"India says China&#8217;s claims over Arunachal Pradesh state &#8216;absurd&#8217; | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nNEW DELHI:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China was making &#8220;absurd claims&#8221; over Arunachal Pradesh, adding that the northeastern state which shares a border with China will always be an &#8220;integral and inalienable part of India&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China claims Arunachal Pradesh to be a part of southern Tibet. New Delhi rejects the claim, saying Arunachal Pradesh has always been a part of India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Repeating baseless arguments in this regard does not lend such claims any validity,&#8221; Randhir Jaiswal, India&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to last week&#8217;s comments made by Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, spokesman of China&#8217;s Ministry of National Defense, days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a road tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh on March 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2459137\/india-rejects-chinas-objections-to-modis-visit-to-himalayan-border-state\" target=\"_blank\">India rejects China&#8217;s objections to Modi&#8217;s visit to Himalayan border state<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zhang said in a statement that India should &#8220;stop taking any moves that complicate the border issue and earnestly maintain peace and stability in the border areas&#8221;, adding that the tunnel&#8217;s inauguration &#8220;runs counter to the efforts made by both sides to ease the border situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-armed neighbours share a 3,000-km (1,860 mile) frontier, much of it poorly demarcated. At least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops were killed in 2020 in clashes along their border in the western Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p>The militaries of both countries have fortified positions and deployed extra troops and equipment along the border since those clashes. Both sides fought a border war in 1962.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China was making &#8220;absurd claims&#8221; over Arunachal Pradesh, adding that the northeastern state which shares a border with China will always be an &#8220;integral and inalienable part of India&#8221;. China claims Arunachal Pradesh to be a part of southern Tibet. New Delhi rejects the claim, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Indian-Army-truck-Arunachal-Praddesh1710860328-0\/Indian-Army-truck-Arunachal-Praddesh1710860328-0.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}