China's 'fictitious names' mischievous, says India

NEW DELHI: With China undertaking different workout to rename places successful Arunachal Pradesh, India has categorically rejected "any mischievous attempts by the Chinese broadside to delegate fictitious names to places which signifier portion of the territory of India". In a statement, ministry of outer affairs (MEA) said specified actions detract from the ongoing efforts to stabilise and normalise India-China ties. Govt further said that China should refrain from moves which inject negativity into relations. Beijing has fixed Chinese names to 23 places successful Arunachal successful what is the 6th specified workout successful the past 10 years to reenforce its assertion implicit the Indian authorities it calls Zangnan. "Such attempts by China astatine introducing mendacious claims and manufacturing baseless narratives cannot change the undeniable world that these places and territories, including Arunachal Pradesh, were, are and volition ever stay an integral and inalienable portion of India," said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. India's effect besides followed reports from Beijing that China had acceptable up a caller region successful its Xinjiang province, seemingly to ramp up information on the constrictive Wakhan Corridor to curb infiltration of Uyghur separatist militants. A PTI study said the region named Cenling is located adjacent the Karakoram upland scope and adjacent to the borders with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan, underscoring its strategical significance.

This is the 3rd caller region established by China successful Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim Uyghur region, successful conscionable implicit a year. India had past twelvemonth lodged a protestation with China implicit instauration of Hean and Hekang counties, stating that parts of their jurisdiction autumn wrong Ladakh. China has successful the past renamed places successful Arunachal Pradesh 5 times - successful 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. On the past juncture - successful 2025 - India had described the workout arsenic preposterous, saying that originative naming volition not change the undeniable world that Arunachal Pradesh remains an integral and inalienable portion of India. China claims not conscionable Tawang successful Arunachal but efficaciously the full state, saying it's a portion of southbound Tibet, adjacent arsenic the Tibetan govt-in-exile holds that Arunachal Pradesh is simply a portion of India. China cites examples similar the second-most important Tibetan Buddhism monastery being successful Tawang and the 6th Dalai Lama being calved determination to backmost its claim.