China Destroys 30,000 Maps For Not Showing Arunachal Pradesh & Taiwan As Part Of Its Territory

Arunachal Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India and is the north-eastern state of the country. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east and is separated from China in the north by the McMahon Line.

Everybody knows that India and China have disputes over the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The two countries have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Meanwhile, on March 26, customs officials in China destroyed 30,000 world maps for not mentioning Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as part of its territory, according to PTI. China claims the north-eastern Indian state is a part of China.

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Almost 30,000 ¡®incorrect¡¯ world maps, showing Taiwan as a separate country and wrong depiction of the Sino-Indian border, were destroyed by the customs authorities in Qingdao, it said.

¡°What China did in the map market was absolutely legitimate and necessary, because sovereignty and territorial integrity are the most important things to a country. Both Taiwan and South Tibet are parts of China¡¯s territory which is sacred and inviolable based on the international law,¡± Liu Wenzong, a professor from the Department of International Law of China Foreign Affairs University said.

China often objects to Indian leaders when they visit Arunachal Pradesh. But India¡¯s stand on it is also clear - they say that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and Indian leaders will visit Arunachal Pradesh from time to time.

China also claims the estranged island of Taiwan as its part.