Indians give hilarious names to Chinese places after China renames 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh
After China announced standard names for 15 locations in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, India reacted strongly, saying the state was an integral part of India and had no right to rename Chinese sites. However, on Twitter, Indians came up with the occasion, naming Chinese places with Indian names in a fun way.
On December 30, 2021, the Chinese state-run Global Times reported that the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs had renamed 15 locations in Zhangnan (southern Tibet) as “sovereignty based on the history” of the Tibetan, Chinese alphabet and Roman alphabet. Has been standardized. Area of Arunachal Pradesh. The renamed names include eight residential areas, four hills, two rivers and a mountain pass.
Indian journalist Ananta Krishnan says:
China's Ministry of Civil Affairs today in a statement puts out what it calls 'standardised' names for 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh, to be used on Chinese maps. This follows 6 places renamed in 2017, and ahead of a new border law coming into effect on Jan 1, 2022. pic.twitter.com/XoeWEWEoKR
— Ananth Krishnan (@ananthkrishnan) December 30, 2021
McMahon line
India acknowledges that the legal national border with China is along the McMahon Line in Arunachal Pradesh, which was decided by the representatives of Tibet and British India as part of the 1914 Shimla Conference. China, however, does not recognize this, saying that Tibet was not independent of China and that there was no Chinese representative at the conference.
On the Chinese map, an area about 65,000 kilometers south of the McMahon Line is shown as part of the Tibet Autonomous Region (South Tibet); Conflict has led to border clashes over the past few decades.
In 2017, China unilaterally changed six “official” names for Arunachal Pradesh sites for the first time, to reassert the country’s “territorial sovereignty” in the region. The 15 new name changes preceded the new Land Ceiling Act, which took effect on January 1, 2022. Under the law, China is required, among other things, to “take measures to protect its territorial integrity and borders.”
However, India’s foreign ministry has insisted that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and that China’s actions will not change that. Indian journalist Siddhanta Sibal tweeted:
India reacts to China renaming places of Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Says, "Assigning invented names to places in Arunachal Pradesh does not alter this fact" pic.twitter.com/JWqfE3S37q
— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) December 30, 2021
Memes on Twitter
Responding to the news, Indians took to Twitter to take revenge with Indian names made for Chinese places.
Twitter user Harpreet (CestMoiz) shared the news with the local WhatsApp community about the name change:
On one of my WA groups, folks have done some renaming of their own:
Beijing : भुजंग नगर
Lhasa : लक्ष्मणगढ़
Tibet : तिवतियानगर— Harpreet (@CestMoiz) December 31, 2021
Another user, Vargabi (@ smna17), whose name is Xinjiang Shivganga Nagar. Harpreet’s thread included more ridiculous names, such as New Chandigarh for Chengdu, Hanumangarh in Hubei, and Gandhinagar for Guangzhou.
Twitter user Biswas mentions:
Shanghai : Sanghipur
Nanjing : Nandigarh
Yunan : Yananapuramr— bishwa (@bishwa55900127) December 31, 2021
Meanwhile, on the Facebook page of Northeast Today magazine, Facebook user Sardhan commented on a news item about Taron.
Twitter user Purnima Andre commented:
https://t.co/E6iUTf11wS
This is not a recent development. As for renaming it doesn't change anything. You cld rename places in China. Wll that mean those places belong to India?— Purnima Andrade (@Pooh68_) January 2, 2022
Hyderabad user Pradala (Country Boy) tweeted:
If China renames Places of Indian State Arunachal Pradesh then India must rename #Beijing as "BIJANPUR".#ArunachalPradesh is, was and will always be an integral part of India.
But It's true that #Tibet is not #China.#FreeTibet #Tibetan pic.twitter.com/VsMgMOCYV8— देशी छोरा (@Deshi_Indian01) December 31, 2021
User S Basudev Rao tweeted:
A new attempt by China to rename some villages in Arunachal is yet another effort at trying to legitimise its illegal and immoral claims of extra territory from its neighbours. Its silence on giving back Aksai Chin to India, is however,deafening.#China#India#ArunachalPradesh
— S. Vasudeva Rao (@vasudeva57) December 31, 2021
Sudha Ramachandran noted in The Diplomat that Beijing has used similar tactics in dealing with the disputed South China Sea. In April 2020, China announced the Chinese names of 80 islands and walls in the South China Sea in addition to their coordinates to identify the claims. Ramachandran predicts that the Chinese government may announce more lists next month.
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