China has been claiming many Indian areas as its own the most funny case being Bengal included in China,as per its maps,some years ago!China is becoming bolder and bolder and the UPA especially is very meek.MM Singh claims that the two top Chinese leaders are his "friends",even as China humiliates India with frequent incursions,one occurring very recently as per the Indian Army.
Now China as usual
has opposed Anthony's visit to Arunachal Pradesh,as also the many visits of India's president etc...China refuses Visa to residents of Arunachal.
THIS link proves that Arunachal Pradesh belongs to India.
THIS WIKIPEDIA LINK explains things in detail. An excerpt from the link above:-
"
Drawing of McMahon line
British map published in 1909 showing the Indo-Tibetan traditional border (
eastern section on the top right)
In 1913-1914 representatives of China, Tibet and Britain negotiated a treaty in India: the
Simla Accord.
[7] This treaty's objective was to define the borders between Inner and Outer Tibet as well as between Outer Tibet and
British India. British administrator,
Sir Henry McMahon, drew up the 550 miles (890 km)
McMahon Line
as the border between British India and Outer Tibet during the Simla
Conference. The Tibetan and British representatives at the conference
agreed to the line, which ceded
Tawang
and other Tibetan areas to the British Empire. The Chinese
representative had no problems with the border between British India and
Outer Tibet, however on the issue of the border between Outer Tibet and
Inner Tibet the talks broke down. Thus, the Chinese representative
refused to accept the agreement and walked out.
[citation needed]
The Tibetan Government and British Government went ahead with the Simla
Agreement and declared that the benefits of other articles of this
treaty would not be bestowed on China as long as it stays out of the
purview.
[8]
The Chinese position was that Tibet was not independent from China, so
Tibet could not have independently signed treaties, and per the
Anglo-Chinese (1906) and Anglo-Russian (1907) conventions, any such
agreement was invalid without Chinese assent.
[9]
Simla was initially rejected by the Government of India as incompatible with the 1907
Anglo-Russian Convention.
However, this agreement (Anglo-Russian Convention) was renounced by
Russia and Britain jointly in 1921. However, with the collapse of
Chinese power in Tibet the line had no serious challenges as
Tibet
had signed the convention, therefore it was forgotten to the extent
that no new maps were published until 1935, when civil service officer
Olaf Caroe called attention to this issue. The
Survey of India published a map showing the McMahon Line as the official boundary in 1937.
[citation needed]
In 1938, the British finally published the Simla Convention as a
bilateral accord two decades after the Simla Conference; in 1938 the
Survey of India published a detailed map showing Tawang as part of
NEFA. In 1944 Britain established administrations in the area, from Dirang Dzong in the west to
Walong
in the east. Tibet, however, altered its position on the McMahon Line
in late 1947 when the Tibetan government wrote a note presented to the
newly independent Indian Ministry of External Affairs laying claims to
the Tibetan district (Tawang) south of the McMahon Line.
[10] The situation developed further as India became independent and the
People's Republic of China
was established in 1949. With the China poised to take over Tibet,
India unilaterally declared the McMahon Line to be the boundary in
November 1950, and forced the last remnants of Tibetan administration
out of the Tawang area in 1951.
[11][12] The PRC has never recognized the McMahon Line, and claims Tawang on behalf of Tibetans.
[13] The
14th Dalai Lama,
who led the Tibetan government from 1950 to 1959, was quoted in 2003 as
saying that Tawang was "actually part of the Tibetan administration"
before the Simla Accord.
[14] He clarified his position in 2008, saying that as far as Tibet was concerned "Tawang is part of India".
[14] According to the Dalai Lama,
"In 1962 during the India-China war, the People's Liberation Army (PLA)
already occupied all these areas (Arunachal Pradesh) but they announced
a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew, accepting the current
international boundary,
[15]".
Besides, as early as 1917, The Government of China had also published
the “Postal map of China”, published at Peking in 1917. "It shows the
whole northern Boundary of India more or less according to the
traditional Indian alignments"
[16]."
To be continued......
