evidence: The dispute’s origins lay in the November 2019 release of India’s new political map, which showed Kalapani within India. [...] The dispute is further muddied by the presence of Indian troops in Kalapani since before the 1962 war with China. [...] But Beijing’s ambiguous position that Kalapani is a bilateral issue between India and Nepal has been keenly watched by Nepali analysts since the current road is a result of its 2015 agreement with New Delhi.