evidence: Recent trends highlight that Arunachal Pradesh – over which China lays historical claims, calling it "Zangnan" or South Tibet – has become the "new focal point of confrontation" in India-China border tensions. For a long time, China has routinely protested the visits of top Indian leaders or officials to the state and has not been issuing visas to Arunachal officials while providing stapled visas to its residents. In 2017 and then again in 2021, China "standardized" the names of six and 15 places, respectively, (including residential areas, mountains, passes, and rivers) in the Indian state as part of its strategy to lend legal credence to its territorial claims. [...] Arguably, following the Galwan conflict, it was only a matter of time before China extended its aggressive tactics to other areas of dispute along the LAC. On this note, it can be assessed that conflict in Tawang was inevitable, especially as it is the historical, cultural, and political "flashpoint" of the Tibet question. Furthermore, the region figures centrally in Xi’s quest for Chinese "rejuvenation" and "revitalization." The new law and intermittent clashes at the border are only further evidence that India is being dragged into protracted turmoil.