MEA calls China's claims over Arunachal Pradesh 'absurd', again

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Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said, the Chinese defence ministry was advancing "absurd claims" over the territory of India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh which it said will always be an "integral and inalienable part of India"...

Arunachal Pradesh was, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India..

The Chinese military earlier reiterated its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, calling the area an "inherent part of China's territory", days after India rejected Beijing's objection to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state...

The Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang said that the southern part of Xizang (the Chinese name for Tibet) is an inherent part of China's territory, and Beijing "never acknowledges and firmly opposes" the "so-called Arunachal Pradesh illegally established by India", official media reported...

India has repeatedly rejected China's territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh, asserting that the state is an integral part of the country..

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