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Eastward from Bhutan and north of the Brahmaputra River ( Yarlung Zangbo Jiang ) lies a large area controlled and administered by India but claimed by the Chinese.

The area was demarcated by the British McMahon Line, drawn along the Himalayas in 1914 as the Sino-Indian border ; India accepts and China rejects this boundary.

In June 1980 China made its first move in twenty years to settle the border disputes with India, proposing that India cede the Aksai Chin area in Jammu and Kashmir to China in return for China's recognition of the McMahon Line ; India did not accept the offer, however, preferring a sector-by-sector approach to the problem.

In July 1986 China and India held their seventh round of border talks, but they made little headway toward resolving the dispute.

Each side, but primarily India, continued to make allegations of incursions into its territory by the other.

Most of the mountainous and militarized boundary with India is still in dispute, but Beijing and New Delhi have committed to begin resolution with discussions on the least disputed middle sector.

India does not recognize Pakistan ’ s ceding lands to China in a 1964 boundary agreement.