Philip Green OAM, the Australia’s High Commissioner to India, has posted on X to say that he has landed in Arunachal Pradesh and highlighted that it is the 18th Indian state that he has visited. It is significant that apart from United States, other Western block nations have been recognizing Arunachal Pradesh as Indian state when China has laid claim to this territory recently.
This shows that Western nations have consciously decided to side with India on this issue against China.
China maintained its stance that Arunachal Pradesh is part of its territory, despite India rejecting Beijing’s claims as "absurd" and "ludicrous."Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated China’s position in response to Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s recent remarks, where he dismissed China's repeated claims on Arunachal Pradesh as "ludicrous," asserting that the frontier state is an integral and "natural part of India."