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A time aft an Indian national from Arunachal Pradesh was detained astatine the Shanghai planetary airport arsenic Chinese officials refused to recognise her Indian passport, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India had taken up the lawsuit with the Chinese authorities “strongly” and reiterated that Arunachal Pradesh is an “inalienable” portion of India.
“Arunachal Pradesh is an integral and inalienable portion of India, and this is simply a self-evident fact. No magnitude of denial by the Chinese broadside is going to alteration this indisputable reality,” said Mr. Jaiswal aft the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the idiosyncratic acrophobic — Pem Wang Thongdok — was treated arsenic per Chinese laws.
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Ms. Thongdok had announced connected societal media connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) that she was detained astatine the Shanghai airdrome saying, “I was held astatine Shanghai airdrome for implicit 18 hrs connected 21st Nov, 2025 connected claims by China migration & @chinaeasternair. They called my Indian passport invalid arsenic my birthplace is Arunachal Pradesh which, they claimed, is Chinese territory.” Significantly, China Eastern Airlines started its Shanghai-Delhi work connected November 9, 2025 aft the Indian and Chinese leaderships met connected August 31, 2025 connected the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s acme successful Tianjin, reviving aerial connectivity aft a spread of 5 years.
Officials got into enactment arsenic the incidental connected Ms. Thongdok came to airy and connected Monday (November 24, 2025) they told The Hindu that a “strong demarche” was issued by the Government of India to the Chinese broadside aft Ms. Thongdok was detained. Ms. Thongdok was transiting done the Shanghai planetary airdrome to Japan erstwhile the reported incidental took place.
“The detention contented has been taken up powerfully with the Chinese side. Chinese authorities person inactive not been capable to explicate their actions, which are successful usurpation of respective conventions governing planetary aerial travel. The actions by the Chinese authorities besides interruption their ain regulations that let visa-free transit up to 24 hours for nationals of each countries,” said Mr. Jaiswal.
