China passports anger India
- Published: 23 Nov 2012 at 20.55
- Online news: Asia
India has objected to new Chinese passports that label disputed regions along the joint border as Chinese, Indian officials and news reports said on Friday.
The computer-chip passports are equipped with a map that has also angered people in Taiwan and the Philippines by showing some of their territory as Chinese.
Sources in the Indian government said Beijing was issuing e-passports to its citizens that showed a map which includes the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin, a region in Kashmir, as part of China.
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