It is said that there are the following provisions in the world: once a country occupies a certain place for more than 50 years, the international community will recognize its legitimate ownership of this area. Southern Tibet, a fertile land, seems to have been lost forever. The area of China is no longer 9.6 million square kilometers, because 90,000 square kilometers in southern Tibet will never belong to China.
Reference article: Sorrow in Southern Tibet
The southern slope of the Himalayas, about 90,000 square kilometers between 92 and 97 degrees east longitude, is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Don't think that this place belongs to the Himalayas, and it is full of ice and snow. In summer, the southwest monsoon blowing from the Indian Ocean brings a lot of water and heat, and it is warm and rainy here, with an average annual precipitation of over 9000 mm! It is one of the regions with the largest precipitation in the world and can grow many subtropical crops. The land here is fertile, and it is called "Jiangnan" of Tibet. What a surprise!
This area is equivalent to the vast and fertile area of Zhejiang Province, and it is a disputed area of sovereignty between the two most populous developing countries in the world.
In June, there was a meeting in Simla, northern India, 5438+09 13. The meeting was attended by representatives of China government, British government, British and Indian government personnel, and China "Tibet" representatives, mainly discussing the border issue between China and (British) India. Because (Yuan Shikai) the Beijing government was busy conquering the revolutionary forces in the south (Sun Yat-sen's "second revolution"), all parties had different opinions and could not reach an agreement at all. In fact, the agreement is only a form of legalization of the rights seized by Britain, and Britain's ambition to invade China and Tibet is not bound by any agreement at all. 19 14 On March 24th, Henry McMahon, Foreign Minister of the British colonial government of India (the representative of the British government) secretly exchanged letters with local Tibetan representatives in New Delhi, India, concocting the so-called "China-India border line" (the blue line in the above picture). This dividing line is different from the dividing line (red line above, traditional custom line) that has been used in various official (including British) publications and maps. Invaded Tibet on a large scale, and incorporated more than 90,000 square kilometers, which was originally the richest in Tibet, into the Indian colony of the British Empire, reducing the area where China and Tibet have been effectively exercising sovereignty to the north by 100 kilometers.
It is this kind of private transfer of national territory that successive governments in China have denied the legality of this line. In the twenty years after the Simla Conference, the British did not dare to publicly announce this "treaty" for fear of lack of legitimacy, nor did they change the traditional drawing of the Sino-Indian border on the map published in Britain.
However, a slip of the foot makes a lasting regret! 1962+00 In the Sino-Indian War, China withdrew all its troops to 20 kilometers behind the actual line of control (near the Blue Line) under the condition of losing all its territory, which was equivalent to actually acknowledging the existence or effectiveness of the wheat line. The Indians returned there, cultivated, built and multiplied, and became the "home" for the new generation of Indians with no place to go. I find it hard to recover! For a moment, even McMahon couldn't do it!
In the great triangle strategy of the Soviet Union and the United States at that time, although the Sino-Indian contradiction was secondary, it was not worth expanding the war with it. However, when the lost land was completely recovered at that time, the military strength was outstanding, and all ethnic groups were United as one enemy (a large number of materials, such as artillery shells, were brought back from the mountains when yaks could not crawl), and more importantly, the northeast of India was trembling at that time. Completely defensible. If you persist, you will take the initiative at the negotiating table: both historical basis and strength control. Now, what happened without fighting or defense, without bringing India to the negotiating table? ! Even at the negotiating table, can we expect the Indian to return this territory to China? What is the price? how old