China Expresses Discontent as Indian Mountaineers Name Arunachal Peak After 6th Dalai Lama

China reacted to the development on Thursday with displeasure over a move adopted by Indian mountaineers to name an unnamed peak in Arunachal Pradesh after the 6th Dalai Lama who reiterated claims over the state.

A never-before-climbed 20,942 ft high peak in Arunachal Pradesh was climbed by an NIMAS team that named the peak after the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso who was born in 1682 in the Mon Tawang area.
NIMAS is a base located in Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh working under the Ministry of Defence.

The Defence Ministry issued a press statement explaining that it was doing so to pay tributes to eternal wisdom and his contributions, not only for the Monpa community but for all time to come.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was quoted in a media briefing in response to queries: "I am not aware of what you have mentioned."

Let me say more broadly that the region of Zangnan is part of Chinese territory, and illegal, and null and void for India to establish the so-called 'Arunachal Pradesh' in Chinese territory. This has always been China's consistent position.
China since 2017 has been renaming places in the region to stake its claim, calling Arunachal Pradesh Zangnan.

New Delhi: India has rejected China's claims on Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, and that assigning the names "invented" by China would not change this reality.