NEW DELHI–China has “standardized” names of 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state on the border with Bhutan and Burma that China claims and has aggressively intruded upon for the past few decades. Criticizing China for “inventing” names, India’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi said, “assigning invented names” doesn’t alter the fact that Arunachal Pradesh is an “integral part” of India and will always remain so. India has ruled over Arunachal Pradesh since 1954 when it was established as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA). After the Indo-China war of 1962, the relations between the two countries deteriorated and the border dispute emerged. The dispute has further escalated recently after the Doklam standoff in 2017 and the bloody conflict in Galwan in 2020. In 1972 India turned NEFA into Arunachal Pradesh, a federally governed territory or Union territory, and in 1987 it was given the status of a state under the …