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The April 10, 2026 announcement by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs of the sixth batch of standardized place names in Arunachal Pradesh, which it refers to as “Zangnan” (Southern Tibet), represents a continuation of a calibrated, non-kinetic strategy within the broader India-China boundary dispute. Although framed as an administrative exercise, the progressive expansion and refinement of toponymy should be understood as part of a layered approach to territorial assertion, combining symbolic, legal, psychological and strategic dimensions under conditions of unresolved sovereignty.
India has firmly rejected China’s move, calling it a “mischievous attempt” to assign “fictitious” names to parts of its territory. It maintains that such efforts to advance “false claims” and “baseless narratives” can...
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