{"id":19799,"date":"2018-02-16T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=19799"},"modified":"2018-02-16T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:58:25","slug":"china-protests-modi-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/china-protests-modi-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"China protests Modi visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEIJING, Feb 15:<\/strong> China today voiced its &#8220;firm opposition&#8221; to the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh, which it claims as part of South Tibet, and said it would lodge a diplomatic protest with India.<br \/>\n&#8220;China&#8217;s position on the China-India boundary question is consistent and clear-cut,&#8221; said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang in response to reports that PM Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh today.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Chinese government has never recognized the so-called Arunachal Pradesh and is firmly opposed to the Indian leader&#8217;s visit to the disputed area,&#8221; Shuang was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua news agency.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will lodge stern representations with the Indian side,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nShuang said China and India had reached important consensus on properly managing disputes, and the two sides were working to resolve the territorial disputes through negotiation and consultation.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Chinese side urges the Indian side to honour its commitment and abide by the relevant consensus, and refrain from taking any action that may complicate the boundary question,&#8221; Shuang said.<br \/>\nHe urged India to cherish the hard-won momentum of improvements in bilateral relations and create enabling conditions for the boundary talks and the development of bilateral relations.<br \/>\nChina routinely protests visits of Indian leaders to Arunachal Pradesh and reiterates its claims over it. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Feb 15: China today voiced its &#8220;firm opposition&#8221; to the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh, which it claims as part of South Tibet, and said it would lodge a diplomatic protest with India. &#8220;China&#8217;s position on the China-India boundary question is consistent and clear-cut,&#8221; said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}