evidence: Is Tawang, Home of Tibetan Buddhism’s 2nd Largest Monastery, China’s Next Territorial Target in India? [...] Tawang, historically, was part of Tibet as the most important frontier administrative unit of the government of Tibet before signing the Simla Convention in 1914. This convention demarcated the boundary between Tibet and the eastern Himalayan region of British India, finally drawing the McMahon Line as the border between Tibet and British India. [...] Since June 2020, China has begun claiming the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary situated in Bhutan as a ‘disputed territory’. This implies that a potential future occupation scenario of this sanctuary by China will enable it to deny the western flank of Tawang completely, much to the military and strategic disadvantage of India.