Since the days of Sun Tzu, ideological warfare with opponents has been an ancient Chinese strategy with the legitimate propaganda tools of deception, betrayal and the Communist arsenal. China renamed 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh in Mandarin as part of a psychological warfare aimed at keeping the Narendra Modi government in tension and declaring a new normal in Beijing’s border resolution strategy .

The Chinese will play similar psychological games with the Republic of Taiwan and its Western supporters almost every day in 2021, and their PLA fighters will break through Taipei’s southwest air identification zone or air defense identification zone almost every day. China’s last major breakthrough occurred on November 28, 2021. A total of 27 fighter jets, bombers, and aerial reconnaissance aircraft forced Taiwan into a new normal. Regional and global powers will always be in fear. Since the beginning of 2022, Chinese reconnaissance planes have breached Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on January 1 and 2 respectively, as if the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of plenipotentiary leader Xi Jinping was demarcating.

Although India rejected China’s renaming of certain places in Arunachal Pradesh, national security planners understand Beijing’s psychological game and will respond to it at the appropriate time and place. The Narendra Modi government is not in the mood to respond to China’s psychological activities, but it will not allow any free lunches to Beijing. Perhaps China’s move is itself the reaction of RSS Chairman Mohan Bhagwat’s visit to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on December 21 in McLeod Ganj. The person in charge of RSS not only exchanged views with the 14th Dalai Lama, but also met with leaders of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala. From the response of the Chinese Embassy to the Indian parliamentarians attending the reception hosted by the Tibetan government-in-exile, it is obvious that the Tibet issue is like a red rag on Taiwan to the CCP, or even more. In violation of diplomatic etiquette, the Chinese Embassy actually threatened the six members of Congress attending the reception in December 2021 and asked them not to support the Tibetan cause. Even in the past, junior diplomats at the Chinese embassy and consulate in Mumbai violated diplomatic etiquette and publicly questioned the Indian ministers of the former UPA regime, including Pranab Mukherjee, who later became president during the 1962 war. In addition, every time an Indian VVIP visits Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing has the habit of making a statement.

China abhors any issues in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, but India has always followed Beijing’s example of changing the names of towns in Tibet and Xinjiang in the past. The Indian Embassy in Beijing practices diplomatic etiquette and does not write directly to the Chinese propaganda media, which often regard India as part of the information war. Perhaps it is time for the Chief Surveyor of India to release a new map to speak out in Tibet instead of catering to the CCP’s Tibetan nomenclature.

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