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India and China share a border of more than 3,000 km high in the Himalayas, and the two countries have never agreed where it actually is. This video explains why: the 1865 Johnson line, the 1899 British proposal, the 1914 Simla Convention and McMahon Line, the 1962 war, the Line of Actual Control, and the Galwan Valley clash of 2020. Each side's position is presented as that side's claim. CHAPTERS 0:00 A border nobody can point to 0:32 Chapter 1: The lines drawn by empires (Aksai Chin, 1865–1947) 1:25 Chapter 2: The line in the east (Simla 1914, the McMahon Line) 2:15 Chapter 3: The road and the war (1950s–1962) 3:29 Chapter 4: A line nobody drew (1993–2020) 4:42 Chapter 5: A line that holds, for now Subscribe to Borderline Facts for more stories about borders, maps and the lines between countries. NOTES Border lines shown in the animation are approximate and for illustration only. Casualty figures are reported as each side states them (India: 20 soldiers killed at Galwan; China later said 4). Images marked "AI-GENERATED ILLUSTRATION" were created with Google Flow. The narration is AI-generated (synthetic voice). IMAGE & DATA CREDITS (files from Wikimedia Commons) Aksai Chin high altitude plateau.jpg — B_Aichner — CC BY-SA 4.0 甜水海兵站.jpg — Eric Feng — CC BY-SA 2.0 Mountains and vegetation in Taflagam, Arunachal Pradesh 02.jpg — 2006nishan178713 — CC BY-SA 4.0 Ladakh LAC Landmarks.jpg — Defense Mapping Agency — Public domain Galwan River claim lines (1962).jpg — US Army Headquarters, Survey company — Public domain Txu-pclmaps-oclc-181831961-52-e-karakoram-pass-1956.jpg — Survey of India — Public domain Kunlun Mountains.jpg — Preston Rhea — CC BY-SA 2.0 Historical map of the Kuen Lun and Aksai Chin boundary — Public domain Shila Tsarap Mountains Zanskar Oct22 A7C 04113.jpg — Timothy A. Gonsalves — CC BY-SA 4.0 Fields Zangla Zanskar River Ladakh Jun24 A7CR 00981.jpg — Timothy A. Gonsalves — CC BY-SA 4.0 Nathu La-Stairs.JPG — Ambuj Saxena — Public domain A notice a few km ahead of the Nathu La pass.jpg — shankar s. — CC BY 2.0 The Dalai Lama, Nehru and Zhou Enlai in 1956 in India.jpg — Homai Vyarawalla — Public domain Nehru and Zhou Enlai arrival in New Delhi (Anefo) — CC0 Pangong Tso 2.jpg — KennyOMG — CC BY-SA 4.0 Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh(Changthang).jpg — Stanzin1945 — CC BY-SA 4.0 Rezang La War Memorial Plaque.jpg — Runabhattacharjee — CC0 Rezang La war memorial site.jpg — Runabhattacharjee — CC0 Simla Convention map by Hugh Richardson.jpg — Hugh Edward Richardson — Public domain Simla Convention borders in Kham.jpg — Hugh Edward Richardson — Public domain Tawang Monastery (Tibetan Buddhist).jpg — Vikramjit Kakati — CC BY-SA 4.0 A Tibetan Pilgrim Lighting Ghee Lamps.jpg — Orly Liu — CC BY-SA 4.0 Tibetan plateau river.jpg — Jan Kranendonk — CC BY-SA 4.0 Indian soldiers on patrol during the 1962 Sino-Indian border war.jpg — Unknown author — Public domain Terrain: elevation data from AWS Open Data Terrain Tiles (Terrarium; SRTM/ASTER and other open sources). Music (YouTube Audio Library, no attribution required): Wind-Up Mountains (Schwartzy), Red Shift (The Grey Room / Density & Time), Standoff (Density & Time), Way Back Home (Simon Herody). #IndiaChina #LineOfActualControl #Borders #Geography #Himalaya