NEW DELHI — India mentioned on Tuesday that it had lodged a powerful protest with China over a brand new map that lays declare to India’s territory, the newest irritant in testy ties between the Asian giants.
The protest by New Delhi adopted reviews within the Indian media that Beijing had launched an official “standard map” exhibiting the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin plateau as its official territory.
China claims Arunachal Pradesh within the jap Himalayas to be part of southern Tibet and had in April launched a map renaming 11 locations within the state as being inside “Zangnan,” or southern Tibet in Chinese.
Aksai Chin is a disputed plateau within the western Himalayas claimed by India however managed by China.
“We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the so-called 2023 ‘standard map’ of China that lays claim to India’s territory,” the Indian international ministry spokesperson mentioned.
“We reject these claims as they have no basis. Such steps by the Chinese side only complicate the resolution of the boundary question,” he mentioned.
Earlier on Tuesday, India’s international minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar dismissed China’s territorial claims.
“Making absurd claims on India’s territory does not make it China’s territory,” Jaishankar instructed news channel NDTV.
New Delhi’s protest comes days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg final week and highlighted considerations concerning the stand-off on their disputed Himalayan frontier.
Relations between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbors have plummeted after troopers from either side clashed within the Himalayas in June 2020, ensuing within the dying of 20 Indian troopers and 4 Chinese troops.
While the scenario on the almost 3,000-km (1,860-mile)frontier has been calm since, the face-off continues in a couple of pockets with tens of 1000’s of troopers amassed on either side of the frontier within the western Himalayas. — Reuters
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