24.1 C
New Delhi
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
spot_img

China seen to have renamed non-existent areas to assert its Arunachal claims

Must Read

(TibetanReview.net, Apr06’23) – China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet, reported the timesofindia.com Apr 6.

For instance, the coordinates of two rivers named by the Chinese as “Qiburi He” and “Geduo He” weren’t provided, with the civil affairs ministry simply claiming these were “specific locations”, the report noted.

Likewise, “Bangqin” referred to a “piece of land” in a forested mountainous area beyond Zemithang, India’s last village in Tawang district, close to the imagined McMahon Line that demarcates the border, the report said.

Official sources in India have dismissed China’s naming exercise as “mere mischief” carried out ahead of the Cope India IAF-US Air Force air combat exercise at Bengal’s Kalaikunda airbase from Apr 10 to 21.

China’s ministry of civil affairs had released the list on Apr 2, using both Tibetan and Chinese pinyin.

It described the list, the third of its kind, as an “addition of publicly used place names in southern Tibet” along with categories, administrative districts and select coordinates.

One entry in the Chinese list is a settlement named “Jiangkazong”, whose coordinates lead to a house mapped to Tawang town, west of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya there, the report said.

It also said the given coordinates of another so-called settlement, “Dadong”, point to a large open space marked in Google Maps as being part of Tato town of Arunachal’s West Siang district.

Another “piece of land” named by the Chinese as “Guyutong” turns out to be a forest clearing near the western bank of Lohit river, north of Kibithoo in Anjaw district in eastern Arunachal. The coordinates given for “Luosu Ri”, “Diepu Ri”, “Dongzila Feng”, “Nimagang Feng” and “Jiuniuze Gangri” reveal mountain tops spread across various locations in the northeastern state, the report added.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

SOCIAL MEDIA

6,269FansLike
1,080FollowersFollow
9,726FollowersFollow

Opinions

The Defamation of the Dalai Lama: An Intercultural Analysis

OPINION Human behaviors often violate each other’s expectations, which is especially true and rampant in an intercultural setting, and the...

Controverted Dalai Lama video clip and the Tibetan cry of ‘please listen to us’

LETTER Now, more than ever, the international community needs to listen to the Tibetan people’s constant cry of please listen...

Latest News

More Articles Like This