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For more than a century the border between Tibet and India, and now between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, has followed lines set by the 1913-1914 Simla Convention. The Chinese government has maintained a claim to Tibetan areas that fell on the Indian side of the border, however, and in recent years China has repeatedly sought to elevate this claim by issuing documents purporting to “standardize” the names of places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
In the wake of recent fighting between India and Pakistan, China released a fifth batch of “standardized place names” for areas in the eastern sector of the ongoing India-China border conflict. China refers to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as “Zangnan,” or “south of Tibet.”
This conflict has previously escalated to armed struggle, such as during the 1962 ...
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