China has been doing this before also

Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said That we have seen such news. This is not the first time that China has made such an attempt. We reject it outright. Recently, China has released the third list of names for Arunachal Pradesh in ‘Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin’ characters. This is the third list of standardized geographical names issued by China for Arunachal Pradesh. First List of Standardized Names of Six Places in Arunachal and Second List of Places in was released in China has renamed some places in Arunachal Pradesh at a time when the standoff between the two countries in eastern Ladakh that started in May 2021 is yet to end.

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