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By giving Chinese and Tibetan names to eleven sites in Arunachal Pradesh which it calls South Tibet, China is being knowingly provocative. It is assuming that India will fret and fume but will not take retaliatory action on issues that are of equal sensitivity to China. This is the third time that China has similarly renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh, the first time in 2017 and the second in 2021. India has protested in each case without seeking to escalate matters by targeting China on territorial issues. Calling Arunachal Pradesh South Tibet was a major provocation by China which India...
