The Nepal Student Union, the student wing of the ruling Nepali Congress, on Thursday protested outside the Embassy of China in Kathmandu accusing the northern neighbour of failing to recognise Nepal’s actual territories in its new map.

Student leaders carrying placards chanted slogans demanding the northern neighbour correct its map. They also submitted a memorandum to the embassy with their demand.

Police detained them for around an hour.

The map released by China on Monday night shows Nepal’s territories bordering China, but the pointed spur of the Nepal map is notably absent.

The new political map of Nepal unveiled by the KP Oli government on May 20, 2020, incorporates Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura and Kalapani. The updated map was unanimously endorsed by the federal Parliament on June 13 of the same year.

Earlier today, Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah announced that he had cancelled his upcoming China visit citing the northern neighbour’s failure to recognise Nepal’s latest map.