Express View: Beijing’s posture on Arunachal Pradesh borders on intimidation


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The China-India war of words since April 2 over Beijing’s renaming of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, the third time it has done so since 2017, escalated a notch further with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the state April 10. The External Affairs Ministry rejected the latest renaming move “outright”. During his visit, Shah reiterated the message that India will not allow even a “needle-point” sized part of its territory to be encroached. The Chinese foreign ministry said “the activity of the senior Indian official in Zangan (China’s name for Arunachal) … is not conducive to peace...