NEW DELHI: Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that it’s an “outdated behavior” of China to stake declare on territories that don’t belong to them. In an interview with NDTV, the overseas minister dismissed Beijing’s “absurd claims” and stated “placing out a map doesn’t imply something.” Jaishankar’s remarks got here after China on Monday launched the 2023 version of its “commonplace map,” which exhibits the state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin area as a part of its territory.
In an unique interview with the tv channel, the exterior affairs minister stated, “China has put out maps with territories (which can be) not theirs. (It’s an) outdated behavior. Simply by placing out maps with components of India… this does not change in something.” “Our authorities could be very clear about what our territories are. Making absurd claims doesn’t make different individuals’s territories yours,” Jaishankar instructed NDTV.
The map launched on August 28 by Beijing exhibits Arunachal Pradesh which China claims as South Tibet and Aksai Chin occupied by it within the 1962 warfare as a part of its territory. The map additionally stakes declare over Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea. The map additionally incorporates China’s claims over the nine-dash line thus laying declare to a big a part of the South China Sea. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei have all claims over the South China Sea areas.
The map was launched by China’s Ministry of Pure Sources throughout the celebration of Surveying and Mapping Publicity Day and the Nationwide Mapping Consciousness Publicity Week on Monday in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, as per China Day by day newspaper. Not too long ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Overseas Secretary Vinay Kwatra had stated in his dialog with President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Modi highlighted India’s issues on unresolved points alongside the Line of Precise Management within the Western Sector of the India-China border areas. “The Prime Minister underlined that upkeep of peace and tranquillity within the border areas and observing and respecting the LAC are important for the normalisation of the India-China relationship. On this regard, two leaders agreed to direct their related officers to accentuate efforts at expeditious disengagement and de-escalation,” Kwatra had stated.
This isn’t the primary time that Beijing has employed such techniques.
In April this 12 months, China had unilaterally “renamed” as many as 11 Indian places, which included names of mountain peaks, rivers and residential areas. Beforehand in 2017 and 2021, China’s Civil Affair Ministry had renamed different Indian places triggering one other political confrontation. New Delhi referred to as out China’s expansionist plans then.
