It did not cover the middle and western sectors. During the conference, Mac and Lonchen Shatra Dorje, the Tibetan representative, negotiated an agreement to delineate a boundary between Tibet and India in the Eastern sector. He convened the 1913 – 1914 Shimla conference to delineate a Tibet-China border. A former army engineer, he was a specialist in survey and had worked on demarcating the Durand Line. Macmahon (Mac) was the Foreign Secretary in British India.
Not the least among them is that both sides have been talking at each other, rather than to each other. Surprised, I went into the matter a little more deeply and made some startling discoveries.
Even though a veteran of the 1962 war, I had never before heard of a Chinese version. Three decades ago, when my team was tasked with an aerial survey of the McMahon Line(Mac Line/ML), I was asked whether I knew the Chinese version of the McMahon Line.
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