{"id":40198,"date":"2026-08-13T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/13\/china-stands-firm-on-territorial-rights-dismisses-indias-name-change-proposal-asia-news-network\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:04:23","slug":"china-stands-firm-on-territorial-rights-dismisses-indias-name-change-proposal-asia-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/13\/china-stands-firm-on-territorial-rights-dismisses-indias-name-change-proposal-asia-news-network\/","title":{"rendered":"China Stands Firm on Territorial Rights, Dismisses India\u2019s Name Change Proposal \u2013 Asia News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>China Asserts Claim Over Zangnan Region Amid Naming Dispute with India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOKYO<\/strong> \u2013 On Monday, China reiterated its claim over the Zangnan region, rejecting India&#8217;s recent naming of locations in the area, which India refers to as Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, expressed these views following India&#8217;s announcement on August 7, where it designated &#8220;standard names&#8221; for 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh. India\u2019s Ministry of Home Affairs stated that this move was intended to improve public understanding and recognition of these locations.<\/p>\n<p>Guo dismissed India&#8217;s naming initiative, calling it illegal and ineffective. &#8220;This does not change the fact that the Zangnan region is part of China,&#8221; he stated firmly.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Asserts Claim Over Zangnan Region Amid Naming Dispute with India TOKYO \u2013 On Monday, China reiterated its claim over the Zangnan region, rejecting India&#8217;s recent naming of locations in the area, which India refers to as Arunachal Pradesh. Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, expressed these views following India&#8217;s announcement on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}