♤ In the Ladakh sector, the question of where exactly Chinese forces stood after the war remains contested.

♤ Demarcating boundary in Aksai Chin is more complicated because it has never been an inhabited area & no markers really exist to demarcate their sovereignty.

1.3.2. The Eastern Sector

♤ At the 1914 China-Tibet-Britain Simla Convention, Sir Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of British India, drew up the 890-km McMahon Line as the border between British India and Tibet.

♤ The line, drawn primarily on the highest watershed principle, marked out previously unclaimed/undefined borders between Britain and Tibet.

♤ The line put Tawang and other Tibetan areas in the British empire. The line was forgotten until the British government published the documents in the 1937 edition of Aitchison’s Collection of Treaties. Subsequently, China refused to accept the line.