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Jun Mai

China has called India’s move to abolish Kashmir’s special status “not acceptable” and said it was not binding, following condemnation from Pakistan.
“Recently India has continued to hurt Chinese sovereignty by unilaterally changing domestic law,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday.
She reiterated that India’s claim over Ladakh, as part of Kashmir, involved Chinese land.
“This act is not acceptable and won’t be in any sense binding,” Hua said.

Beijing urged New Delhi to abide by bilateral agreements and avoid acts that would further complicate the border issues, she said.
India’s decision on Monday to strip Kashmir of the special autonomy it has enjoyed for seven decades also prompted protests in Pakistan, which administers part of the Himalayan region.
The upper house of India’s parliament also passed a bill proposing the state of Jammu and Kashmir – which includes the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh area – be split into two federal territories. Jammu and Kashmir will have a state legislature, and Ladakh will be ruled directly by New Delhi.
Protests erupt over India’s Kashmir move, China voices opposition
Beijing said the Ladakh area involved territory in the disputed China-India border region. India claims parts of Aksai Chin – which is administered by China in its far western Xinjiang region – as territory in Ladakh.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947. For three decades the Indian-administered part – the country’s only Muslim-majority state – has been in the grip of an insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
India’s move had already rattled Pakistan and other Muslim countries.
Islamabad condemned New Delhi’s decision to abolish Kashmir’s special status as “illegal”, insisting it was an internationally recognised disputed territory.

The office of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called both his Malaysian counterpart, Mahathir Mohamad, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to warn that the move could have “serious implications” for regional security and “was in clear violation” of UN Security Council resolutions.
Refugees in Pakistani-held Kashmir meanwhile voiced fears for relatives on the other side of the disputed Himalayan border. Many of the roughly 250 people in the Manak Paiyan refugee camp near Muzaffarabad, the largest city in Pakistani-held Kashmir, fled fighting in the 1990s but still have family on the other side of the Line of Control, the de facto border slicing through the heavily militarised region.
Abolishing Kashmir’s special status is ‘illegal’, Pakistan says
Washington has urged respect for rights and called for the maintenance of peace along the de facto border in Kashmir.
Tensions between China and India have periodically flared along their 4,000km (2,485-mile) border, resulting in a brief war in 1962. Beijing and New Delhi have made efforts to repair their relations since a tense stand-off two years ago at the Doklam plateau, which is claimed by India’s ally Bhutan.
On Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party rushed through a presidential decree to remove from the country’s constitution an article that granted special autonomy to the Kashmir region and prevented non-natives from purchasing property or holding government jobs there.
The bill proposing the Indian-administered part of Kashmir be divided into two regions directly ruled by New Delhi still needs to be ratified by parliament.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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China calls India’s move to scrap Kashmir’s special status ‘not acceptable’ and not binding

Indian activists of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi in 2017. Photo: AFP

FILE PHOTO: A man walks inside a conference room used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 10, 2008 shows a Chinese soldier (L) next to an Indian soldier at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China in India's northeastern Sikkim state. China's ambassador said July 4, 2017 that the withdrawal of Indian troops from a disputed territory is a "precondition" for peace, in an apparent escalation of a border row between the two Asian powers that has drawn in tiny Bhutan. Indian and Chinese troops are reportedly facing off on a section of land high in the Himalayas near what is known as the trijunction, where Tibet, India and Bhutan meet. / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA

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Pakistanis protest after the Indian government removed the special status granted to the region of Kashmir, in Lahore. Photo: EPA-EFE

An Indian Kashmiri refugee Mohammad Yaseen Rana shows a picture of his late father on his mobile phone in the Manak Paiyan refugee camp near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir on August 5, 2019. - Khadija Bibi said her father had passed away just two days ago -- but that she has been unable to speak with her sisters or other relatives to share their grief. Refugees in Pakistani-held Kashmir voiced fears for relatives still on the other side of the disputed Himalayan border Monday after India abolished the Muslim-majority region's special autonomy, raising fears of fresh violence. India cut off telecommunications and imposed a security lockdown on the territory on August 4 2019, ahead of the decision to strip Kashmir of the special status it has held for seven decades. (Photo by SAJJAD QAYYUM / AFP)

epa07757976 People burn a poster of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest after Indian government's proposal to remove the special status given to the Indian-administrated Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 05 August 2019. The Pakistani government says that India cannot change the disputed region's status due to UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, over which India and Pakistan have fought two wars and had many minor military conflicts. EPA-EFE/BILAWAL ARBAB

Pakistanis protest against India and express support and solidarity with Indian Kashmiri people in their peaceful struggle for their right to self-determination, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. India's government has revoked disputed Kashmir's special status by a presidential order as thousands of troops patrolled and internet and phone services were suspended in the region where most people oppose Indian rule. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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File - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23,2013, file photo, an Indian national flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony for visiting Indian officals outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China is insisting that India withdraw its troops from a disputed Himalayan plateau before talks can take place to settle the most protracted standoff in recent years between the nuclear-armed neighbors. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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