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Informal acceptance of the 1899 line

The part of the caption “Accepted by China until 1959”, which was added after the original upload, is not fully supported by existing literature. Many sources note that it was ignored, e.g.

• Woodman, Dorothy (1969) Himalayan Frontiers: A Political Review of British, Chinese, Indian, and Russian Rivalries, Praeger, p. 102 "The proposed boundary seems never to have been considered in the same form again until Alastair Lamb revived it in 1964."
• Lamb, Alastair (1965). "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute". The Australian Year Book of International Law. "Unfortunately, the Chinese never replied formally to the note, though they indicated informally on a number of occasions their agreement as to its boundary alignment."

Any sources that do say that it may have been accepted by a China only not tacit implicit (or informal) acceptance, and one might be able to say something like that. However, it’s not quite right to say that it was outright accepted since it was officially ignored. MarkH21 (talk) 02:40, 9 June 2020 (UTC)