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The Ledger

The Slow Siege

China has renamed 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh. India calls it cartographic aggression. The pattern — rename, claim, assert, repeat — is familiar from the South China Sea. Beijing does not need to fire a shot to advance its territorial position. It just needs to keep renaming.