The border between China and India is disagreed upon. This disagreement has a historical basis: in 1914 the powerful British, who at the time occupied India, wanted to recognize the McMahon Line which runs along the main crestlines of the Himalayas to the east of Bhutan. The British convened a conference between British, Tibetan, and Chinese officials in the town of Simla to draw up a treaty which agreed to the McMahon Line. Although Chinese representatives at the meeting approved, the treaty was rejected when a draft reached China’s capital. The British simply overruled the rejection. Only the British and Tibetan representatives signed the treaty, the Chinese representatives did not. The British made Arunachal Pradesh part of their South Asian empire and governed it as such. But the Chinese did not forget. In 1958 the new communist government began a campaign to move the boundary to where the Chinese government had wanted it at Simla in 1914. The new, democratic Indian government disagreed. The issue remains unresolved.
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