China Map: China includes Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin in its new ‘standard map 2023’ | India News

Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea have also been included within the Chinese territory in the new map.
The map was released by China’s ministry of natural resources during the celebration of Surveying and Mapping Publicity Day and the National Mapping Awareness Publicity Week on Monday in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, as per China Daily newspaper.
This comes months after India rejected attempts by China to rename 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh in the month of April.
“This is not the first time China has made such an attempt. We reject this outright,” Arindam Bagchi, the external affairs ministry spokesperson, had said in a Twitter post. “Arunachal Pradesh is, has been and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. Attempts to assign invented names will not alter this reality,” Bagchi had said.
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi were seen engaging a brief interaction at the 15th Brics Summit in Johannesburg.
Before the conference started in earnest, the Prime Minister and the Chinese President were pictured having a brief conversation before taking their designated seats.
Foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra did not call it a bilateral meeting but said the conversation captured the sense of the relationship as PM highlighted India’s concerns over the “unresolved issues” along the LAC and both leaders agreed to work towards early disengagement and de-escalation.
India and China have been in a stand-off situation for the last three years and relations at all levels have deteriorated due to tensions on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The two sides have held 19 rounds of talks so far to address the boundary issues in eastern Ladakh since 2020.