evidence: Tawang: The Indian monastery town coveted by China - Published [...] Of all the disputed areas, Tawang remains high up on China's list of claims. [...] "Tawang is indispensable to China. The Tibetan spiritual leader the sixth Dalai Lama was born there [in the 17th Century]," said Mr Zhou, who attended India-China border talks as a military expert in the mid-1990s.