For China which was afforded mere observer status at the negotiations preceding the agreement the McMahon Line represents a dire humiliation.

ECONOMIST: India and China

In the east, China disputes the McMahon Line, agreed by British India and a Tibet then under British rather than Chinese sway.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

Making matters worse, the McMahon Line was drawn with a fat nib, establishing a ten-kilometre margin for error, and it has never been demarcated.

ECONOMIST: India and China

This 890km stretch of frontier was settled in 1914 by the governments of Britain and Tibet, which was then in effect independent, and named the McMahon Line after its creator, Sir Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of British-ruled India.

ECONOMIST: India and China