New Delhi:
Upping the ante on Arunachal Pradesh, a leading Chinese official newspaper Wednesday said that an "overwhelming majority" of its web users were against "frequent" visits to the "disputed area" by Indian leaders.
An online poll conducted by huanqiu.com, the website of the Global Times' Chinese edition, showed that an overwhelmingly majority of users were against the visits.
"About 96 per cent of the over 6,000 respondents agreed that they felt agitated by the frequent visits by Indian leaders to the disputed area, while about 2 per cent disagreed and 2 per cent said they didn't care," said the paper, a sister publication of the ruling Communist Party's mouthpiece, People's Daily.
The paper's rather unusual step of carrying out an online survey came a day after China again raked up its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, questioning Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit there on October 3.
China accuses India of possessing some 90,000 sq km of Chinese territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.
An online poll conducted by huanqiu.com, the website of the Global Times' Chinese edition, showed that an overwhelmingly majority of users were against the visits.
"About 96 per cent of the over 6,000 respondents agreed that they felt agitated by the frequent visits by Indian leaders to the disputed area, while about 2 per cent disagreed and 2 per cent said they didn't care," said the paper, a sister publication of the ruling Communist Party's mouthpiece, People's Daily.
The paper's rather unusual step of carrying out an online survey came a day after China again raked up its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, questioning Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit there on October 3.
China accuses India of possessing some 90,000 sq km of Chinese territory, mostly in Arunachal Pradesh.
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