Chief Minister Pema Khandu of Arunachal Pradesh has dismissed China's repeated territorial claims on the state, stating that Beijing's attempts to rename regions are 'out of habit'.
Khandu said that Arunachal Pradesh does not share a border with China, but with Tibet, and that the state remains 'unfazed' by China's claims.
He further clarified that there has been significant advancements in India's border areas, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'massive push to infrastructure development' making border regions 'highly accessible'.
China has renamed as many as 82 cities and geographical regions in Arunachal Pradesh since the Doklam stand-off in 2017, but the Ministry of External Affairs has rejected such attempts, terming them 'vain', 'preposterous', and 'mischievous'.
