US Senate committee passes decision declaring Arunachal Pradesh as an integral a part of India

The United States Congressional Senatorial Committee on Thursday handed a decision recognizing Arunachal Pradesh as an integral a part of India.

The decision was handed by Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, Tennessee’s Senator Bill Hagerty, and Texas’ Senator Jon Cornyn. The decision was cosponsored by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).

The laws reaffirms that the US acknowledges the McMahon Line because the worldwide boundary between China and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It refused China’s claims that giant parts of Arunachal Pradesh are their territory, which is part of the PRC’s more and more aggressive and expansionist insurance policies, a media assertion mentioned.

“America’s values supporting freedom and a rules-based order must be at the center of all of our actions and relationships around the world—especially as the PRC government pushes an alternative vision,” mentioned Senator Merkley, who serves because the Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

“Committee passage of this resolution affirms that the United States views the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of the Republic of India—not the People’s Republic of China—and commits the US to deepen support and assistance to the region, alongside like-minded international partners,” he added.

Meanwhile, Senator Hagerty mentioned at a time when China continues to pose grave and gathering threats to the Free and Open Indo-Pacific, it’s vital for the United States to face shoulder-to-shoulder with our strategic companions within the area—particularly India and different Quad nations—and push again towards the CCP’s broader technique of territorial aggrandizement that it has pursued within the South and East China Seas, the Himalayas, and the southern Pacific, in accordance with an official assertion.

“As tensions between India and China escalate over their shared border, the United States must stand strong in our defense of democracy by supporting a free and open Indo-Pacific,” mentioned Senator Cornyn.
Cornyn mentioned additional this decision would reaffirm that the US acknowledges Arunachal Pradesh as “part of the Republic of India”.  

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