China-India border dispute intensifies over Himalayan state

India has rejected China’s renaming of about 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh, calling it “senseless” and reaffirming that the region is an “integral” part of India.

China claims the area as part of South Tibet, calling it Zangnan, but India has repeatedly dismissed all such territorial claims.

Despite military and diplomatic talks, tensions between the two countries have been high, with minor scuffles along the disputed frontier in Dec. 2022.

India and China share a 3,800 km (2,400 mile) border – much of it poorly demarcated – over which they also fought a bloody war in 1962.

Twenty Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops were killed in hand-to-hand combat in 2020, prompting both countries to fortify positions and deploy extra troops and equipment along the border.