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The McMahon Line was first drafted in 1913, and the treaty to ratify them (Simla Accords) was never signed by the Republic Of China(ROC) who had just overthrown the Qing dynasty. There was no such thing as the McMahon Line in 1890, and China isn't disputing where the Line was drawn, she's disputing the validity of the Line in its entirety. The primary Indian claim is that the ROC did sign the Simla Accords because a British official called Olaf Caroe fabricated a narrative in 1938 where the ROC signed the Simla Accords (they didn't) and ceded parts of Tibet to the Raj.
In 1963 a British diplomat compared a pre-1938 treaties compendium with the post-Caroe compendium and found that Caroe had changed the note on the ROC's not signing the Simla Accords into one where the ROC signed it and considers the Indo-Tibetan border finalised. Nehru picked up a copy of Caroe's fabricated compendium so he got the impression that his country was legally entitled to more than she actually was. Compounding this was the US' decision to add fuel to the flames by declaring the McMahon Line as the legitimate boundary in an attempt to contain the spread of communism, despite reservations from the US State Department and protests from the fiercely non-communist Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of the ROC.
However, we all know Nehru irreversibly altered his country's relations with China in 1962, so by 1963, when the fabrication was discovered, it was already too late to stem the tide of Indian nationalism based on the false compendium entry. And that leaves us with the situation today, in the aftermath of a British attempt to de jure carve out a piece of Chinese territory which failed but had some success de facto, then a British fabrication of her failed attempt to carve out Chinese territory, then an Indian acceptance of the British fabrication alongside American endorsement, and a Chinese refusal to accept the fabrication as anything remotely legal.
Some Indians recognise that they don't actually have a legal claim to South Tibet, so they've begun using a different claim in that the people living in South Tibet want to be part of India more than China; in essence, a claim based on the principle of self-determination. This is India's secondary claim. However, as history has shown time and time again (Catalonia, Confederate States, Taiwan, Corsica, Chechnya, Tibet, Naxalites), without the permission of the larger body, a smaller section of the population will not be allowed to separate from its original country regardless of what they want.
A much more detailed account of the McMahon Line and its history is available here, written by Peter Lee who, contrary to impressions given by his surname, is not at all Chinese.
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India is 5th largest economy only because of 1.4+ billion population and nothing else. GDP is defined as the total value of goods/services produced for a certain period. I ask you this question. How much goods/services can a single person produce versus 10 person, assuming they are using the same type of labor? Obviously, 10 person will be able to produce more goods/services as compared to a single person. Ratio is 1 : 10 , 1 person versus 10 people and that is why India easily and ought to beat the GDP of countries with significantly lesser population.
Now, what happens if you were to make a more meaningful and fair comparison by comparing a 1.4+ billion population country India versus another 1.4 +billion country China?..... Why is India's GDP merely 3.75 trillion whereas China's GDP is 18 trillion?
Thus, don't give me nonsensical comments such as being the 5th largest economy in terms of GDP and don't even try bragging about it. A country of their size of 1.4 billion ought to be at least half the GDP of China because they have approximately the same population. They're not even 20% of China's GDP, yet they like to think themselves as superpower and throw their weight around. China only exposes the weakness of India: quality versus quantity.
Before you accuse World Bank's data as not reliable, you need to understand that the entire world borrows money from World Bank. Yes, it is the same bank that India trusted and thus borrowed money from them to finance their Swachh Bharat toilet mission 2014 (The mission includes making 110 million toilets for 600 million Indians over a period of 5 years to end open defecation)
Truth and reality hurts the most
Indians hate the Chinese because the very existence of China is a perpetual reminder that China has succeeded whereas India has failed. The entire world is always comparing this 2 largest countries because they have the same population and because of this, Indians have a hard time coping being the inferior one. Thus, India have developed this defense mechanisms psychology that they cannot lose out to China.
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