China’s Global Times and Xinhua X-account handles blocked in India

The X account handles of Global Times and Xinhua on Wednesday showed that it has been withheld in India in response to a legal request.

An email query sent to the Ministry of Electronics and IT elicited no immediate reply in this regard.

This development comes in the backdrop of Beijing announcing Chinese names for some places in Arunachal Pradesh, which the neighbouring country claims as the southern part of Tibet.