China has actually raised objections over Bangladeshi books portraying Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of India in a map of Asia.
Chinese diplomats declared Bangladesh “improperly illustrated the 2 areas” as part of India’s area in grade 4 books and on the site of the Department of Study, calling it a “accurate disparity”.
Beijing sent out a letter to Bangladesh in November in 2015, asking for corrections to the maps and info provided in the books and on the study department’s site, Bangladeshi everyday Prothom Alo reported.
In the letter, China stated the Bangladesh and Global Research Studies book consists of a map of the Asian area in which the territorial limits in between China and India have actually been “erroneously significant”, especially with regard to Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin.
India and China share a 3,488 km border that ranges from Ladakh in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east. China holds a big piece of area called the Aksai Chin in Ladakh that it won throughout the 1962 war with India and declares India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its province of Tibet.
Relations in between the hostile neighbours struck a brand-new low in July 2020 after a minimum of 20 Indian armymen and 4 Chinese soldiers were eliminated in a lethal clash in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh. It was the very first time in 45 years that a clash on the border had actually caused casualties.
In 2015, New Delhi stated it had actually reached an arrangement with Beijing on military patrols along their contested Himalayan border, marking a substantial action towards dealing with the standoff.
China likewise contested the reference of Hong Kong and Taiwan as different nations with trade relations with Dhaka in the Bangladesh and Global Research Studies book for trainees of grades 9 and 10.
Beijing keeps that self-governed Taiwan is a breakaway province and has actually not eliminated using force to bring the island under its control.
China has actually asked Dhaka to follow the “One China” policy and stressed shared regard for each other’s “sovereignty, self-reliance and territorial stability”.
The letter was followed by a conversation in between diplomats of the 2 countries.
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Education and the National Curriculum and Book Board stated the procedure of printing brand-new books had actually currently been finished, which left them no space for corrections.
This pressed Dhaka to ask for Beijing to not apply pressure on the problem and apparently guaranteed it that the matter would be dealt with in a collaborated way later on.
“We are preserving status quo, not making any modifications at this minute,” a Bangladesh federal government authorities informed The Daily Star on Sunday.