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India China Tensions: China has released the third list of names in Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin characters for this Indian state for the purpose of re-emphasizing its claim on Arunachal Pradesh. China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs on Sunday issued standardized names of 11 places for Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers to as Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet, in accordance with the regulations on geographical names issued by the State Council, China’s cabinet.
This third list for Arunachal Pradesh
The government-run Global Times said in a news report on Monday that the ministry released the official names of 11 places on Sunday, including 2 land areas, 2 residential areas, 5 mountain peaks and 2 rivers with precise coordinates. In addition, the names of the places and the range of their subordinate administrative districts are listed. This is the third list of standardized geographical names for Arunachal Pradesh issued by the Ministry of Sugar.
Earlier the list of 6 places was released
The first list of standardized names of 6 places in Arunachal was released in 2017 and the second list of 15 places was released in 2021. India has in the past rejected the Chinese move to rename some places in Arunachal Pradesh and has been maintaining that Arunachal Pradesh has always been and always will be an integral part of India and coined names do not change that fact.
Arindam Bagchi gave this response
Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in December 2021, this is not the first time that China has tried to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh in this way. He had said, Arunachal Pradesh has always been an integral part of India and will always be so. Giving invented names to places in Arunachal Pradesh does not change this fact. The Global Times is part of the People’s Daily Group of publications, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party. It quoted Chinese experts as saying that the announcement of the names is a legitimate step and that it is China’s sovereign right to standardize geographical names.
The first list was released in 2017
The first list of names was announced by China in 2017 after Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. China had criticized his visit a lot. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet via Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh and took refuge in India in 1959 after China’s military occupation of Tibet in 1950.
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