{"id":78472,"date":"2024-04-02T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-rejects-chinas-renaming-of-30-places-in-himalayan-border-state\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:23:38","slug":"india-rejects-chinas-renaming-of-30-places-in-himalayan-border-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-rejects-chinas-renaming-of-30-places-in-himalayan-border-state\/","title":{"rendered":"India rejects China\u2019s renaming of 30 places in Himalayan border state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>India rejected China\u2019s renaming of about 30 places in its northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, calling the move \u201csenseless\u201d and reaffirming that the border province is an \u201cintegral\u201d part of India.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing says Arunachal Pradesh, which its calls Zangnan, is a part of South Tibet \u2014 a claim New Delhi has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1822539\">repeatedly dismissed<\/a>. China similarly ratcheted up tensions a year ago by giving Chinese names to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1745860\">11 locations<\/a> in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Troops of the nuclear-armed neighbours engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1726073\">minor scuffles<\/a> along their disputed frontier in the state in December 2022, and tensions eased after extensive military and diplomatic talks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1563892\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Yet the state is frequently the cause of friction between the Asian giants whose ties have nosedived since a bloody border clash between their troops in the western Himalayas in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>China, in a statement on Saturday, said it had standardised the names of about 30 places in what it calls South Tibet, \u201cin accordance with the relevant regulations on place name management of the State Council\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssigning invented names will not alter the reality that Arunachal Pradesh is, has been and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters that \u201cchanging names will not do anything\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I change the name of your house, does it become my house?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, following a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state to inaugurate infrastructure projects, China had said it was opposed to his activities in the region. India termed the arguments \u201cbaseless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US also weighed in on the issue, saying it recognised Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and \u201cstrongly opposed\u201d any unilateral attempts to make claims on it by military or civilian \u201cincursion or encroachments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>China had opposed these remarks, saying the matter \u201chas nothing to do with the US\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>India and China share a 3,800 kilometre border \u2014 much of it poorly demarcated \u2014 over which they also fought a bloody war in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops were killed in hand-to-hand combat in 2020, prompting both countries to fortify positions and deploy extra troops and equipment along the border.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India rejected China\u2019s renaming of about 30 places in its northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, calling the move \u201csenseless\u201d and reaffirming that the border province is an \u201cintegral\u201d part of India. Beijing says Arunachal Pradesh, which its calls Zangnan, is a part of South Tibet \u2014 a claim New Delhi has repeatedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78473,"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.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/04\/02184731e884df5.jpg?r=184804","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78472","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=78472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}