♤ In the Arunachal sector, China treats the McMahon Line as the LAC. But it challenges India’s claim that it should follow the watershed. China lays its calim on Arunachal as “South Tibet” and is specifically keen on the Tawang area.

1.3.3. The Middle Sector

♤ Disagreement between in certain areas such as the Barahoti plains in Uttarakhand

♤ Sikkim sector is considered to be settled by China. For a long time, China did not accept Sikkim’s accession to be a legitimate territory of India. It was only after the joint statement of 2005, China formally accepted Sikkim as a state of India.

♤ The basic problem is lack of any formal treaty defining the boundaries & varying interpretation of Indo-China border. Both the countries went for a full fledged war in 1962 over the issue.