China claims that because Arunachal Pradesh has been and continues to be an essential component of Chinese territory, it has the authority to standardize the names of locations within the state.
This reaction comes after India rejected Beijing’s most recent attempt to give places in the northeastern Indian state Chinese names.
China has previously engaged in similar renaming initiatives, a practice that has often caused tensions to rise between the two countries, especially in the wake of the 2020 border dispute.
As a result of their October agreement to withdraw from their four-year military standoff in the western Himalayas, troops ceased to participate.
