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China Lays Claim to Everest

May 11, 2020;

Chinese state media outlet China Global Television Network has sparked a backlash after claiming that Mount Everest [Qomolangma] is “located in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region”. A 1960 agreement divided the mountain between China and Nepal. However, Professor of Chinese studies, Srikant Kondapali, believes that now “China is trying to consolidate its claims on Tibet and Everest” despite the Chinese side being too steep and treacherous for the majority of mountaineers.

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