cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46206015
India has issued a strong diplomatic protest to China after an Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh was detained and allegedly harassed for more than 18 hours while transiting through Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The incident has triggered a fresh diplomatic confrontation between the two countries.
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According to official sources, Chinese immigration officials refused to accept the woman’s Indian passport, claiming her birthplace — Arunachal Pradesh — was “Chinese territory.” India described the conduct as “ludicrous” and “unacceptable.”
The passenger, Pem Wang Thongdok, was travelling from London to Japan on November 21, with a scheduled three-hour layover in Shanghai. Her routine transit turned into a prolonged ordeal after officials reportedly invalidated her documents solely due to her Arunachal Pradesh origin.
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Acting immediately, New Delhi lodged a strong demarche with the Chinese government in both Beijing and New Delhi. The Indian Consulate in Shanghai also intervened, providing “fullest assistance” to the stranded traveller.
Government sources emphasized that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India, and all its residents are fully entitled to hold and travel on Indian passports. Refusing to recognize this, they said, is baseless, provocative, and completely unacceptable.
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When “You look Chinese, why aren’t you Chinese?” turns into an international incident rather than just plain racism.
She is likely Tibetan and not ethnic Han Chinese.
That would explain persecution by Han supremacists.
What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?
It’s up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it’s China, not India’s, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.
iirc China doesn’t allow dual citizenship
That doesn’t matter. She is an Indian citizen born on Indian territory.
That doesn’t mean that Chinese citizens cannot become citizens of other countries, just that they can’t do that and retain their Chinese citizenship. It’s also legal for former Chinese citizens to visit China, you’re not exiled or anything when you give up your citizenship.
Perhaps the CCP is changing their mind on the legality of that
They might, but it happens a lot, so it would be a big change. Countries that don’t allow dual citizenship tend to have a lot of former citizens visit, because anyone who marries someone from another country and lives with them there will have an easier time of things if they become a citizen of their new country, but they still have family back home to take care of (and the CCP is invested in keeping former citizens attached to their families, so they can use them as leverage).
Lots of countries say that, but that’s incredibly impractical in practice
Get used to China’s border creep tactics because it’s going to keep happening until their dictatorship is forcefully dissolved.
their dictatorship is forcefully dissolved.
So never.
Closer than you think. Just look how fellow dictatorship Russia is doing. Hell, look how the USSR did. These regimes are like jenga as far as the strength of a nation is measured.
Russia is doing… fine? I mean the Russian people sure aren’t, but authoritarianism in Russia isn’t in any real threat despite the war. There’s also absolutely no comparison with China, which is getting stronger by the day. Weak and incompetent authoritarians are overthrown, and the CCP is neither weak nor incompetent.
forcefully dissolved.
In acid i hope.
Israel was always part of China.
And Zheng He “discovered” the Americas so I’m sure they want dibs on that too
Hillary’s emails too, huh?
Believe it or not, property of China.
