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| Ministry against media mapping of Indo-Chinese relations | | | ABID SHAH
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Aug 29: Amid apprehensions about deteriorating relations between India and China, the External Affairs Ministry has issued a denial about a news report published by a prominent daily here today saying that last month Chinese authorities had confiscated certain printed material depicting Indian map from Indian pavilion at a trade exhibition held at Shanghai.
In response to the report a Ministry spokesperson said here today, "I have seen a report in the Times of India, about alleged confiscation of some printed material depicting the Indian map, from the Indian pavilion at Shanghai Expo, by the Chinese authorities.
“There is no factual basis to this report. There has been no interference in the functioning of our pavilion at Shanghai Expo."
The report from Shanghai published by newspaper, however, quotes unnamed Indian officials at the pavilion about the unexpected and unwarranted seizure by Chinese security personnel of maps printed on certain brochures since the maps showed Arunachal Pradesh as part of India which Chinese claim to be disputed.
The newspaper report also says that “ironically China has not objected to Pakistan distributing maps showing another disputed area, Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, on Chinese soil.”
In another though related development New York Times has today reported that China is being given access by Pakistan to Gilgit and Baltistan regions in the POK to lay road and rail links in order to reduce distance for Chinese oil tankers to certain naval ports built by Pakistan on its seacoast.
Earlier, there have been reports that an Indian military top brass was denied visa to visit China. The military general’s jurisdiction includes Jammu and Kashmir. Yet Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yang pleaded ignorance about this while offering to get details in this regard from his Government and clarify.
Somehow the Chinese Defence Ministry said in a statement in the wake of this though without mentioning the issue of denial of visa to Lieutenant General BS Jaswal and just saying that it has neither suspended military exchanges with India nor did it receive any notification from India on the issue.
These developments signify the possibility of a downturn in the relations between the two Asian giants. Yet the External Affairs Ministry in particular and the Government here in general are trying to downplay reports that indicate this. And today’s statement by the Ministry is obviously an attempt to keep the media glare off from the twists and turns the two neighbouring countries’ relations have of late been undergboing
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