"Indian media reported that the Siang River in "Arunachal Pradesh" (called South Tibet in China) has been polluted. Thewith the presence of slag in the stream, the Times of India reported on Thursday," the Chinese paper stated. "South Tibet is the territory of China, which has the duty to preserve local environment," Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of International Relations, told the Global Times on Thursday. ""China has overcome all sorts of difficulties to seek India's cooperation in such areas as the hydrological flood reporting of trans-border rivers," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said in September. Last year, due to reconstruction from damage caused by the flood and as upgrading and renovations, the relevant hydrological stations in China are incapable of collecting relevant hydrological data, he said.

Source: Times of India December 02, 2017 11:48 UTC