India counters China, formally names 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh

India has been dismissing Chinese efforts to assign “fictitious names” to Indian territory, asserting such attempts to create “baseless narratives” cannot alter “undeniable reality”

India ahs onsistently rejected Beijing's practice of assigning Chinese names to places in Arunachal Pradesh, describing the exercise as "vain and preposterous". India has maintained that such actions do not change the "undeniable" fact that the state "was, is, and will" remain an integral part of the country. Several o

China's act of renaming places in Arunachal Pradesh has always been categorically rejected by New Delhi, which has consistently termed such moves "vain and preposterous".