Editing McMahon Line (section)

== Drawing the line ==
In 1913, British officials met in [[Shimla|Simla]], to discuss the status of Tibet.<ref name="Maxwell">Maxwell, Neville, [http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/uploads/1962war.htm ''India's China War''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822215146/http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/uploads/1962war.htm |date=22 August 2008 }}, New York: Pantheon, 1970.{{page needed|date=August 2020}}</ref> The conference was attended by representatives of Britain, China, and Tibet.<ref name="Conven1914"/>{{primary-source-inline|date=August 2020}} "Outer Tibet", covering approximately the same area as the modern "[[Tibet Autonomous Region]]", would be administered by the [[Dalai Lama]]'s government.<ref name="Conven1914">{{cite web|url=http://www.tibetjustice.org/materials/treaties/treaties16.html|publisher=Tibet Justice Center|title=Legal Materials on Tibet – Treaties and Conventions Relating to Tibet – Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, Simla (1914) [400]|access-date=15 July 2006|archive-date=9 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909125110/http://www.tibetjustice.org/materials/treaties/treaties16.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{primary-source-inline|date=August 2020}} Suzerainty is an Asian political concept indicating limited authority over a dependent state. The final 3 July 1914 accord lacked any textual [[boundary delimitation]]s or descriptions.<ref name="Prescott">[[John Robert Victor Prescott|Prescott, J. R. V.]], ''Map of Mainland Asia by Treaty'', Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1975, {{ISBN|0-522-84083-3}}, pp. 276–77</ref> It made reference to a small scale map with very little detail, one that primarily showed lines separating China from "Inner Tibet" and "Inner Tibet" from "Outer Tibet". This map lacked any initials or signatures from the Chinese plenipotentiary Ivan Chen.

Both drafts of this small scale map extend the identical red line symbol between "Inner Tibet" and China further to the southwest, approximating the entire route of the McMahon Line, thus dead ending near [[Tawang]] at the Bhutan tripoint. However, neither draft labels "British India" or anything similar in the area that now constitutes [[Arunachal Pradesh]].{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

The far more detailed{{ref|eight miles to the inch}} [[Simla Accord (1914)#Maps|McMahon Line map of 24–25 March 1914]] was signed only by the Tibetan and British representatives. This map and the McMahon Line negotiations were both without Chinese participation.<ref name="Lamb2-144-5">{{harvp|Lamb, The China-India border|1964|pp=144–145}}</ref><ref name="Maxwell2">Maxwell, Neville, ''India's China War''  New Delhi: Natraj, pp. 48–49.</ref> After Beijing repudiated Simla, the British and Tibetan delegates attached a note denying China any privileges under the agreement and signed it as a bilateral accord.<ref name="Goldstein75">Goldstein 1989, pp. 48–75</ref>{{full citation needed|date=August 2020}} British records show that the Tibetan government accepted the new border on condition that China accept the Simla Convention. As Britain did not to get an acceptance from China, Tibetans considered the McMahon line invalid.<ref name="Shakya1999"/>