Sovereignty over two relatively large and several smaller separated pieces of territory has been

contested between China and India. Aksai Chin is located either in the Indian union territory
of Ladakh or the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang. It is a virtually uninhabited high-altitude
wasteland crossed by the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway. The other disputed territory lies south of
the McMahon Line. It was formerly referred to as the North East Frontier Agency, and is now
called Arunachal Pradesh. The McMahon Line was part of the 1914 Simla Convention between
British India and Tibet, without the agreement of China.[1]
The 1962 Sino-Indian War was fought in both of these areas. An agreement to resolve the dispute
was concluded in 1996, including "confidence-building measures" and a mutually agreed Line of
Actual Control. In 2006, the Chinese ambassador to India claimed that all of Arunachal Pradesh is
Chinese territory[2] amidst a military buildup.[3] At the time, both countries claimed incursions as much
as a kilometre at the northern tip of Sikkim.[4] In 2009, India announced it would deploy additional
military forces along the border.[5] In 2014, India proposed China should acknowledge a "One India"
policy to resolve the border dispute.[6][7]