India has intensified with China “a silent war” focussed on challenging China’s renaming of places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state to strengthen its territorial claim on it.
The Indian Army’s information warfare division, backed by celebrated research institutes like the British-era Asiatic Society based in Kolkata, have swung into action to counter the Chinese nomenclature offensive.
Already tweets by the Army have challenged the Chinese renaming of the seven places in Arunachal and efforts are on to put out counter each of 30 odd places renamed by the Chinese .
After a new government takes charge in Delhi, India may rename nearly 30 places in Tibet Autonomous Region of China, military officials said.
The new names will be backed by extensive historical research, they said.
These writers are in possession of the entire list of Tibetan places that India will rename.
“As and when that happens, it will be tantamount to India reopening the Tibetan question. So long India has accepted Tibet as part of China since it was forcibly occupied by Beijing, but now the Modi government seems prepared to change course to deflate the Chinese cartographical and........