evidence: The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) 2023 "standard map" raised familiar protests with its long-invalidated claims to most of the South China Sea as well as the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and other disputed territory. An unexpected assertion of sovereignty over an island at the PRC’s Russian border, however, showed Beijing’s willingness to appropriate territory even from its closest partners. [...] After the PRC’s latest claim to the entire island, Russia’s foreign ministry stated that the issue was settled more than a decade ago and dismissed any suggestion of reopening the dispute, Newsweek reported. [...] India also lodged a complaint with Beijing over the latest map, saying the territorial assertions have no basis, reported the BBC. The map stakes claim to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed Aksai Chin plateau in the Beijing-administered Kashmir region.