Behaving counterfactual, China moves up blotting out the world maps showing Arunachal Pradesh as India's territory..!

New Delhi, March 26: Destroying off the 28,908 world maps for not showing Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as a part of its territory, China have moved up reiterating its stand on the geo-political borders claiming the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of South Tibet. The customs authorities in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province seized a total of 803 boxes containing 28,908 incorrect maps according to the Qingdao government saying that the problematic maps failed to show the correct territory of China and omitted South Tibet and the island of Taiwan.

 

 

Explaining and lauding the procedure of detailed examination, Liu Wenzong, professor from the department of International Law of China Foreign Affairs University 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”.

"If the wrong maps were circulated inside the country and abroad, it would have caused great harm to China's territorial integrity in the long run," he noted further adding staunchly that China's map management regulations require authorities to strengthen supervision and regulation of activities related to maps, providing a legal foundation to prevent damage to China's national interests.

The maps were produced by a company in East China's Anhui Province and were on the way to being exported to an unspecified foreign country. The crackdown was aimed at enhancing public awareness on national sovereignty and raising people's ability to distinguish such problematic maps, said the report.

China routinely have swayed up objecting the Indian leaders visiting Arunachal Pradesh highlighting its stand. While this happened, the Chinese Foreign Spokesperson Geng Shuang said that India, being a significant country in South Asia, China would like to maintain friendly relations with India.