India has continued to provoke on the issue of southern Tibet, and the Chinese side has directly renamed the place names in southern Tibet, and Modi has suddenly discovered that the situation is not good, and his tone towards China has changed.
As everyone knows, the Indian side has recently stirred up trouble on the border issue on many occasions, and India has not only sent an additional 10,000 troops to the Sino-Indian border, but Modi has also made a swaggering trip to China's southern Tibet region not long ago. This has also triggered a new round of confrontation between China and India on the issue of southern Tibet.
With regard to India's illegal establishment of the so-called "Arunachal Pradesh" in China's southern Tibet region and its attempt to illegally develop the region, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Defense have issued statements one after another, strongly condemning India's actions and reiterating that the southern Tibet region is China's inherent territory. At the same time, India was warned to immediately stop complicating the border issue.
Although this is not the first time that China and India have confronted each other over the border issue, this time the United States has stepped in at a critical moment. A spokesman for the US State Department openly clamored that the so-called "Arunachal Pradesh" is "Indian territory" and warned China not to "change" the status quo on the Sino-Indian border by any military or civilian means.
India's foreign ministry claimed that China's defense ministry's claim to southern Tibet was "absurd" and that it was "an inalienable part of India." It is precisely because of the intervention of the United States that the situation between China and India has become more complicated.
But China will never allow the United States and India to challenge its sovereignty. As a result, two days ago, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs officially announced the fourth batch of public use of place names in southern Tibet, a total of 30 place names were named, this number is also the largest number of place names added.
The announcement issued by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs not only lists the standard Chinese characters and Tibetan names of the 30 place names, but also the types of place names and the administrative regions to which they belong. Obviously, China's move is a powerful response to India's provocations, and at the same time, it is also a declaration of the mainland's sovereignty over southern Tibet.
After China's move, the Indian side reacted not small. Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar then responded at a press conference that the so-called "Arunachal Pradesh" will always be a "state" of India and that there will be no benefit from changing the name. Not only that, in the past two days, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh also claimed that it was China's behavior that caused the deterioration of relations between the two countries.
India's response is clearly shifting the blame to China, but it is silent on its own illegal occupation of China's territory. However, at this juncture, Modi found that the situation was not good. These days, China and India's neighboring countries are coming and going more frequently.
And the Maldives and Bangladesh, which India has long regarded as its backyard, are also growing "anti-Indian". It is reported that in the past two days, the Bangladeshi media have also written a long article on China's help with its infrastructure construction to express their gratitude. In the article, he not only affirmed the achievements of cooperation between China and Bangladesh in many fields, but also spoke highly of the help provided to them by China in infrastructure construction.
It is precisely because of China's investment and technology that Bangladesh has accelerated its pace of economic independence. You must know that Bangladesh, due to its own backwardness, has always been highly dependent on India for survival. But India doesn't really want to help it develop independently, but uses its economic and national advantages to manipulate Bangladesh.
The situation in the Maldives is very similar to that of Bangladesh, so with China's help, these South Asian countries have gradually seen India's face and are no longer willing to be its "backyard". It is precisely because of China's growing influence in South Asia that India has recently provoked trouble on the border issue.
Obviously, the move does not have much to gain for India. As a result, Modi's tone towards China has also changed in the past two days, and he openly said in an interview that the relationship with China is very important and of great significance to India, and the two countries should resolve the border issue through diplomatic contacts as soon as possible and jointly maintain stability and peace in the border areas.
This is enough to show that India does not dare to really tear its face with China, and the border issue cannot become a "sharp weapon" in its political struggle.