♤ 4 September 1958: India officially objects to the inclusion of a big chunk of Northern Assam and NEFA in the China Pictorial - an official organ of the Chinese Peoples’ Republic.

♤ 23 January 1959: Zhou Enlai spells out for the first time China’s claims to over 40,000

square miles of Indian territory both in Ladakh and NEFA.

♤ 3 April 1959: Dalai Lama escapes from Lhasa and crosses into Indian territory. India’s

decision to grant asylum to him sours relations with Beijing.

♤ 8 September 1959: China refuses to accept the Mc Mohan Line with Zhou Enlai stating that China was not a signatory to the 1842 Peace Treaty between British India and England. Further, Beijing laid claims to almost 50,000 square miles of Indian territory in Sikkim and Bhutan.

♤ 19 April 1960: A meeting in New Delhi between Zhou Enlai and Nehru to address the boundary question ends in deadlock.