The Chinese Foreign Ministry on March 25 reacted to Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s statement on Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Lin Jian, said that the Zangnan (Arunachal) region has always been Chinese territory, and India illegally occupied it in 1987. Jaishankar on March 23 called China’s claim on India’s north-eastern state ‘ludicrous’ and asserted that Arunachal is a ‘natural part of India’ after Beijing had opposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Indian state on March 9.
