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China’s latest standard national map has angered India by laying claim to parts of Indian land and parts of disputed land. Released by China’s ministry of natural resources on Monday (Aug. 28), the map shows India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims to be a part of s outhern Tibet , and the Aksai Chin plateau, which has been disputed since the 1962 Indo-Sino war, as China’s territory. Advertisement Arindam Bagchi, the official spokesperson of the India’s ministry of external affairs, said that India has lodged a “strong protest through diplomatic channels” with its contentious neighbor. The poorly...