India rejected China’s attempts to rename places in what New Delhi regards as its eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. The latest angry exchange of words was triggered when China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a statement in which it said it had “standardized” the names of 11 places, including five mountains, in what China calls its southern Tibet region. China and India fought a war along with parts of their poorly demarcated 3,800km frontier in 1962 and clashes in mountainous regions in recent years.
