India's Foreign Minister Jaishankar: 'Making absurd claims does not make other people's territories yours.'
China disputes large parts of the 2100-mile border it shares with India. In the summer of 2020, Chinese military
, killing 20 Indian soldiers, making it the first deadly clash between the two nuclear powers since the China-India war of 1962.the People’s Liberation Army to stay “ready for combat” along the Indian border.China has responded to India’s objection of its new “standard” map – which claims ownership of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin region in eastern Ladakh – calling it “the normal exercise of sovereignty in accordance with law”.
On Tuesday External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had summarily dismissed China’s new “map”, telling NDTV in an exclusive interview Beijing has a “habit” of releasing such maps. “China has put out maps with territories not theirs. old habit. Just by putting out maps with parts of India… this doesn’t change in anything. Our government is very clear about what our territory. Making absurd claims does not make other people’s territories yours,” he said.Besides including parts of India, the Chinese map also stakes claim over most of the South China Sea, which violates the maritime sovereignty of Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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