Adjunct story to the China - India border war 1962. PART ONE

The forgery of a political document in 1914 by England on the Chinese Tibetan border with British Colonial India has great turbulent ramifications on the present relations between China and India.

In 1914 England secretly convened a conference in Simla in which British Colonial Secretary of Colonial India Henry McMahon coerced and lured Tibetan representative Xa Zha to sign an under-the-table deal behind the back of the Chinese delegate. The document they signed secretly known as the "Simla Accord" created the notorious "McMahon Line which incorporated a large area of Southern Tibet including the 'Tawang District that had always been under the administration of China's Tibet. The illegal and illicit deal forced Tibet to give nearly a hundred thousand square kilometers of Chinese territory to British India.

However, on 3rd of July, 1914, the Chinese central government in Beijing instructed Chinese official representative Chen Yi Fan not to sign the null and void accord and declared, " The Chinese government will acknowledge none of the accord or similar document signed by the UK and Tibet on this or any other day". As Chen Yi Fan refused to sign the accord, the Simla Conference broke up. The " Mcmahon Line" was not legally binding. Both the Simla Accord and the British drawn arbitrary "McMahon Line have never been accepted by the Chinese government.

PART TWO will be published on another date.

Reference: Global Times.

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