India Lodges Strong Protest With China Over Territory Claims
India says it has lodged a “strong protest” with China over a new map that lays claim to its territory.
However, India’s foreign minister s Jaishankar also called china’s claim “absurd”.
India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said there is no basis in the claims in the new map released by china’s ministry of natural resources on Monday.
India’s protest comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president xi Jinping spoke on the sidelines of the Brics summit In South Africa.
The source of the tension between the neighbours is a disputed 3,440 kilometres -long de facto border along the Himalayas – called the line of actual control, or lac – which is poorly demarcated.
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Relations between India and china have worsened since 2020, when their troops were involved in a deadly clash at the Galwan valley in Ladakh – it was the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975.
In April, Delhi reacted sharply to China’s attempts to rename 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying the state would always be “an “integral and inalienable part of India”.
Relations between India and China have worsened since 2020, when their troops were involved in a deadly clash at the Galwan valley in Ladakh – it was the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975.
