India, Nov. 28 -- China has once again indulged in its theatrics to claim that Arunachal Pradesh is its territory. It has been doing this for long but this time the victim was an innocent traveller from Arunachal Pradesh. The brief detention and harassment of Prema Wangjom Thongdok at Shanghai Pudong International Airport has once again brought to fore the simmering tension beneath the surface of India-China relations. This is despite the recent thaw in the relations at the higher levels.
For Prema layover on a routine international journey turned into an 18-hour ordeal, with Chinese authorities declaring her Indian passport "invalid" because it had Arunachal Pradesh as her place of birth. China's territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh,...