China renames 30 locations in latest move to assert claim over Arunachal Pradesh: Report

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The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs on Saturday renamed 30 more places in Arunachal Pradesh to lay claim to what it calls Zangnan, or part of the Tibetan autonomous region, South China Morning Post has reported. On Saturday, the Ministry published the country’s latest set of “standardised" names which included 11 residential areas, 12 mountains, four rivers, one lake, one mountain pass and a piece of land. The names of the places it has renamed is not yet known. According to the SCMP report, each of these names was presented in Chinese characters, Tibetan script, and pinyin, which represents the...