Why China keeps cooking up its own names for places in Arunachal Pradesh

India on Wednesday (May 14) rejected the new Chinese names for places in Arunachal Pradesh as a "preposterous" attempt to alter the "undeniable" reality that the state "was, is, and will" always be an integral part of India. It is, in fact, an old Chinese habit to periodically issue lists of new names for locations in Arunachal Pradesh. India describes the names as "inventions" by China, and has consistently and unequivocally dismissed them. China has issued several such lists since 2017, claiming to "standardise" names in accordance with regulations issued by the State Council, the equivalent of the Chinese Cabinet….