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护照地图引燃中印领土矛盾

India and China are engaged in a fresh territorial row after Beijing recently started issuing passports showing two disputed regions as its own.

印度和中国卷入了新一轮领土争端，起因在于北京最近开始发放的护照将两个争议地区显示为本国领土。

The face-off began a few weeks back, after India discovered Beijing issuing new biometric passports depicting two areas along the countries’ 4,000-kilometer disputed Himalayan border as part of China.

这场公然对峙始于几个星期之前。当时印度发现，北京新发的生物识别电子护照将喜马拉雅山脉4,000公里争议边境线上的两个地区划为中国领土。

One of the areas, Arunachal Pradesh, is a northeastern Indian state that Beijing briefly captured in a 1962 border war and still claims as part of China. The other, Aksai Chin, also a focus of the 1962 war, is administered as part of China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region but claimed in its entirety by India.

一个地区是印度东北的阿鲁纳恰尔邦(Arunachal Pradesh)。北京在1962年的边境战争中一度夺得该地区，目前仍然称它是中国领土。另一个地区是阿克赛钦(Aksai Chin)，也是1962年中印战争的争夺焦点，目前由中国新疆自治区管辖，但印度声称该地区全部为印度领土。

“We are not prepared to accept it and we would not, India’s foreign minister Salman Khurshid said in an interview to NDTV news channel last week, posted on the foreign ministry’s website. “We, therefore, ensure that our flags of disagreement are put up immediately when something happens.