Batting for the McMahon Line

As this newspaper reported last week (“British question mark lingers over Arunachal”, July 7), a scholarly article in a Beijing newspaper has focused China’s spotlight on a troubling British policy retreat that undermines the Indian claim that the McMahon Line forms the Sino-Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. This took the form of an inexplicable statement from former British foreign secretary David Miliband in 2008, that back-tracked from Britain’s long-held position...

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