Chinese media were outraged because they received all of Mount Everest

According to NDTV, Chinese global television network (CGTN) 2/5 posted a bunch of photos on Twitter with content claiming that Mount Everest belongs to the country.

In the caption CGTN “Qomolangma Mountain, also known as Mount Everest, is the highest mountain in the world located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.”

Nepalese public opinion was angry at the move and its netizens launched a campaign called #backoffchina (stop in China), and urged the Chinese ambassador to Nepal to speak. the case

Anup Kaphle, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rest of the world and former editor of Kathmandu Post, “We have been taught that Everest is located in Nepal over the years.”

“Stop sharing false information. Mount Everest is located in Nepal, not China, ”wrote a netizen in Nepal.

According to NDTV, the Mount Everest issue, a dispute between Nepal and China in the 1960s. Nepal claimed sovereignty over the area on Prime Minister Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala’s visit to China at the time.

According to a document published in 1998, China offered to divide Everest into two parts, China received the south and Nepal received the north. Beijing also proposed changing the name of the summit to become the China-Nepal Friendship Mountain because Everest is the name given by the West, according to the aforementioned document.

However, the Everest problem remains controversial between the two countries and cannot be resolved. In Nepal, King Mahendra in 1961 declared that all of Mount Everest was within the territory of this country.

Mount Everest, 8,884 meters high, is the main source of income for Nepal, a landlocked country. There are two routes to reach Mount Everest, but the Nepal route is the most popular.

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According to NDTV