India, Nov. 26 -- India's foreign ministry has underlined that "the ground reality does not change at all" after Chinese officials harassed an Indian citizen from Arunachal Pradesh at an airport in Shanghai by repeating a territorial claim over the Indian province.

"China should very well know that its action do not help the relations between the two countries. We have already said that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral and inalienable part of India. The ground reality does not change at all by their actions, and China should know that," Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs, said in response to a question at the weekly MEA briefing on Wednesday, November 26.

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