China on Saturday removed map from website of Belt and Road Initiative (BR) Forum which had shown entire Jammu & Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as part of India and India as part of BRI.
According to report in ET, as the second edition of Belt and Road Initiative Summit got underway in Beijing this Thursday, China displayed a map with BRI routes that curiously showed entire Jammu & Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as part of India.
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The map also showed India as part of BRI even when India skipped the summit for the second time.
The map was displayed by China’s ministry of commerce on the occasion of three-day BRI Summit.
At the Summit the Chinese President made attempts to address concerns expressed by India over BRI. Inclusion of entire J&K and Arunachal Pradesh as part of India is not only a surprise but also self-contradictory, given the fact that China recently destroyed thousands of maps which showed Arunachal as part of India.
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China regularly protests visits by top Indian leadership to Arunachal Pradesh, described as “Southern Tibet” in Chinese government parlance.
Previous maps of J&K issued by China showed part of the state under Pakistan, what is Pak Occupied Kashmir.