Why Does China Keep Renaming Places In Arunachal Pradesh? |
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2024
- Next month it will be four years since the current round of India-China standoff in Eastern Ladakh began. As talks at the military and diplomatic levels continue, India has repeatedly said bilateral ties cannot be normalised till the situation at the border is normal.
India’s relationship with China is significant and we need to “urgently address the prolonged situation on our borders so that the abnormality in our bilateral interactions can be put behind us”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview to Newsweek earlier this week. Stable and peaceful relations between India and China are important for not just our two countries but the entire region and world, he told the American magazine.
It’s not just the northern frontier that is problematic. China has been poking India when it comes to the eastern border and claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet. It disregards the McMahon line, the border demarcating India from Tibet during the British era. Last week, Beijing renamed 30 places, nearly two-thirds of them being geographic features such as mountains and rivers, in Arunachal Pradesh.
This was the fourth instance in the last seven years that China has done something like this, the first one being in 2017 in the aftermath of the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in Bhutan’s Doklam plateau, which lasted over two months.
In 2021, during the peak of the crisis in Eastern Ladakh, the Chinese renamed 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh. A similar exercise followed last year, after India successfully hosted the G20 summit, in which Beijing rechristened 11 places in Arunachal.
And each time an Indian leader visits the state, China lodges a protest. It did so when Prime Minister Modi visited last month but India dismissed those objections.
Why do the Chinese indulge in such activities? China scholars argue that it’s a means of reasserting so-called ownership claims over Arunachal. And in case of future negotiations with India over settlement of the boundary issue, it can cite these exercises as justification for its demand. Another possible reason could be to use its claims over Arunachal Pradesh to swap it for retaining vast swathes (about 38,000 square km) of Aksai Chin, which it occupied after the 1962 war with India.
Each time China asserts its claims over Arunachal Pradesh, India forcefully objects. This time too, the Ministry of External Affairs said Arunachal Pradesh was, is and will remain part of India. "If today I change the name of your house, will it become mine,” asked External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
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MacMahon line is not disputed between India and Tibet Nitin. It’s the negotiated border between Independent Tibet and British India in 1914.
India's inability to think and act strategically only compromises itself. The leaders of Tibet are in India, for decades. India if able to assert itself, should claim Tibet.
Man we should rename Beijing. That would be funny😂😂😂
Once India starts calling Tibet Nothern Arunachal Prased, Chinese will stop renaming parts of India.
India must start pay back china in the same coin. We must start issuing maps and weather forecast for Aksai Hind area.
I always wonder why we have not yet renamed Chenab river चीन आब yet. It is not water of China but India.
The Ganges is filled with the rubbish and PRC wants no part.
Nice episode. At 5:45, this trade off of the Eastern sector offered by China as opposed to the west was also on the table before 1962, I think. It's in Navel Maxwell's book as well as some files declassified by China a few years ago.
Good analysis,
The south China Sea is not excuse or reason for the I'll determine border.
Thanks to Nitin Gokhale for putting China’s renaming of towns in Arunachal Pradesh in perspective and for pointing out their use of this “coercive diplomacy” tactic. Not only in the case of the McMahon line with India ( yet it recognizes the McMahon line on the China-Myanmar border), but also regarding its territorial claims in the South China Sea. Regarding the latter, China has not respected the ruling of the ICJ in 2016, in favour of the Philippines. So China wants to exert its influence on international organizations, but also wants to be free to make its claims on the sovereign territory of neighboring countries! International relations must work on a set of rules and cannot run on the dictat of a geo politically dominant country. Geo politically, India is strong enough to stand up to China’s attitude.
Why India does not claim all the areas south of great wall of China, which we were taught, was made to protect China and forming the boundary between the two countries.
Sir, Please give me a chance to work for Strat News 🙏
India should raise the shimla agreement of 1914 on the table with China.
At least if china takes it, it will be a much cleaner place and the people too will learn hygene
China...there is nothing wrong to put names.fyi
In my opinion.. someone in India wants to handover Arunachal to china for permanent peace. April 2020 Ladakh incursion was also part of that process. Im just guessing
Very simple; over a long period of time repeated using the names they can lay even stronger claim
It never happens that way.. One has to wrest territory by force which neither a India or China is capable of
Do you remember Aksai chin? Which battle was fought? All they had to built a highway and the territory was theirs
@@nikhilrodye8226 bull crap.. 1962 war was all about Aksai Chin… Did you forget battle of Rezangla where 120 odd Indian well led by Major Siatan Singh killed 1000 plus Chinese…
@@Arvindchauhan-qv6gd thanks for making my point
@@nikhilrodye8226 you can’t comprehend as have limited IQ.. That was 62 years back.. now with so of muscle 💪🏻 of weaponry plus nuclear overhang on both sides, wresting territory is just impossible.. So stop playing kiddo games n develop some IQ