Beijing did not immediately react to Singh’s Arunachal Pradesh visit, noted the hindustantimes.com Oct 25. The Defence Minister appreciated the efforts of the soldiers in securing the borders of the country in sub-minus temperatures at an altitude of 15,000 feet above sea level, noted pratidintime.com Oct 24. A clash between them most recently in Dec 2022 in Tawang’s Yangtse area put the spotlight on the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh. In April, the Chinese foreign ministry objected to India’s home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, claiming it violated Beijing’s territorial sovereignty and was “not conducive to peace and tranquillity” along the border. Beijing recently took to calling Arunachal Pradesh “Zangnan” or “South Tibet” and gave its own names to a number of places in it on the basis of its illegal annexation of Tibet in 1951.

Source: Hindustan Times October 25, 2023 19:55 UTC