{"id":236007,"date":"2023-04-04T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236007"},"modified":"2023-04-04T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:51:46","slug":"china-announces-renaming-of-11-places-in-arunachal-pradesh-including-one-close-to-itanagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-announces-renaming-of-11-places-in-arunachal-pradesh-including-one-close-to-itanagar\/","title":{"rendered":"China announces \u2018renaming\u2019 of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, including one close to Itanagar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cChina announces \u2018renaming\u2019 of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, including one close to Itanagar\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 4th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has announced new names of another 11 locations in Arunachal Pradesh. This is the third set of names announced by China.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>China\u2019s so-called claim on Arunachal Pradesh?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China claims some 90,000 sq km of Arunachal Pradesh \u2014 the entire state \u2014 as its territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It calls the area \u201cZangnan\u201d in the Chinese language and makes repeated references to \u201cSouth Tibet\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese maps show Arunachal Pradesh as part of China and sometimes parenthetically refer to it as \u201cso-called Arunachal Pradesh\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China makes periodic efforts to underline this unilateral claim to Indian territory. As part of this strategy, it has tried to give Chinese names to places in Arunachal Pradesh \u2014 it published a list of six such names in 2017, and another 15 names in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How India responded to these Chinese inventions?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has dismissed the Chinese \u201cinvention\u201d of these names. The Ministry of External Affairs had said in a statement: \u201cArunachal Pradesh has always been, and will always be, an integral part of India. Assigning invented names to places in Arunachal Pradesh does not alter this fact\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cChina announces \u2018renaming\u2019 of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, including one close to Itanagar\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th April 2023 What is the News? China has announced new names of another 11 locations in Arunachal Pradesh. This is the third set of names announced by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-announces-renaming-of-11-places-in-arunachal-pradesh-including-one-close-to-itanagar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China announces \u2018renaming\u2019 of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, including one close to Itanagar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-236007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}