{"id":1614,"date":"2021-10-14T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:39:19","slug":"china-opposes-indian-vice-president-visit-to-disputed-arunachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/china\/china-opposes-indian-vice-president-visit-to-disputed-arunachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"China opposes Indian vice president visit to disputed Arunachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Asia Free Press <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING (AFP)  OCT.14 &#8211; China strongly opposed the Indian vice president visit to disputed Arunachal Pradesh and warned New Delhi to restrain from actions that could more complicate the boundary issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a press briefing, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China&#8217;s position on the China-India boundary issue is consistent and clear-cut.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government has never recognized the so-called &#8220;Arunachal Pradesh&#8221; established unilaterally and illegally by the Indian side and firmly opposes the Indian leader&#8217;s visit to this above-mentioned area,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu recently visited the disputed &#8220;Arunachal Pradesh\u201d region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China urged the Indian side to earnestly respect China&#8217;s major concerns, stop taking any action that would complicate and expand the boundary issue, and refrain from undermining mutual trust and bilateral relations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt should instead take real actions to maintain peace and stability in the China-India border area, and help to bring China-India relations back onto the track of sound and steady development,\u201d&nbsp; Lijian said .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India claims this area is its territory, but the Chinese government has never recognized &#8220;Arunachal Pradesh,&#8221; which is referred to as the southern part of Tibet or Zangnan in China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So-called &#8220;Arunachal Pradesh&#8221; was founded illegally in the last century and occupies about 90,000 square kilometers of Chinese territory, according to Chinese media.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Asia Free Press BEIJING (AFP) OCT.14 &#8211; China strongly opposed the Indian vice president visit to disputed Arunachal Pradesh and warned New Delhi to restrain from actions that could more complicate the boundary issue. During a press briefing, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China&#8217;s position on the China-India boundary issue is [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396],"tags":[785,192,64],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","tag-arunachal-pradesh","tag-china","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}