(TibetanReview.net, Jul11’24) – China has claimed Jul 10 that India had no right to carry out development projects in the latter’s Tibet-border state of Arunachal Pradesh, claiming it is Zangnan (South Tibet) and part of its territory.
The remark has come from China’s Foreign Ministry in response to a Reuters report on New Delhi’s plans to speed up hydropower projects in the border state.
“South Tibet is China’s territory,” Reuters Jul 10 quoted a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman as saying in a statement.
India’s development activities in the area “illegal and invalid”, devdiscourse.com Jul 10, likewise, quoted the strongly worded statement as saying.
The previous Reuters report said Jul 9 that India planned to spend $1 billion to expedite the construction of 12 hydropower stations in the northeastern Himalayan state. The territory was delineated as part of India in a 1914 convention at Shimla involving representatives of British India, Nationalist China and Tibet.
Communist China rejects this convention while India has recognized Tibet as an autonomous region of China since 1954.