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The MEA called China's move on Arunachal Pradesh "senseless"...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday slammed China for renaming several places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying assigning invented names in the state will not change the reality that it is an integral part of India.a...
"China has persisted with its senseless attempts to rename places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh," the MEA said in a statement..
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs released the fourth list of standardised geographical names in Zangnan, the Chinese name for Arunachal Pradesh which Beijing claims as part of south Tibet, state-run Global Times reported on Sunday..
Even after at least 19 rounds of bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, PM Modi has not able to use any diplomatic influence on China to stop this absurdity of renaming Indian territories...The least Modi Govt can do is strongly condemn and reprimand China on these daily ludicrous actions and statements," he wrote on X. ..
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