evidence: Recently, China’s publication of new maps claiming territories like Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin plateau, which India asserts as its own, has reignited border tensions. India has formally protested these claims, with Indian external affairs minister S Jaishankar dismissing the significance of such unilateral territorial assertions by China. [...] While Beijing informally respects the McMahon Line as the LAC, it claims about 90,000 sq km in Arunachal Pradesh as Tibetan territory. The middle sector, less disputed, lies opposite Tibet, with Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on the Indian side. [...] In fact, last year, the US Senate introduced a bipartisan resolution reaffirming the state of Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory while positing that China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh is part of its "increasingly aggressive and expansionist policies".