evidence: China, in turn, has built a 36-kilometer road in the 5,163-square-kilometer Shaksgam Valley, which was illegally ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963, while the territory was disputed by India. China was outraged enough by India’s abrogation in 2019 of its Articles 370 and 35A, which resulted in the reorganization of the frontier state of Jammu and Kashmir, of which Ladakh was then a part, to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council. It was particularly incensed over the change in Ladakh’s political status because China considers the region to be of strategic importance. India rebuffed China, terming Ladakh’s new status an "internal matter" that had "no implication for India’s external boundaries or the LAC with China." The Chinese Foreign Ministry, however, issued a statement asserting, "The recent unilateral revision of domestic laws by the Indian side continues to undermine China’s territorial sovereignty, which is unacceptable and will not have any effect."