evidence: Raking through the worn-out pages of history, India Today’s OSINT team pulls out via maps and facts the truth behind China’s claim over the disputed land of Aksai Chin. [...] Quoting Bertil Lintner from his book ‘China’s India War’, "The Chinese never recognised the Ardagh-Johnson Line, and in 1892, one of their patrols erected some border markers at the Karakoram Pass, where there was ancient caravan route between Xinjiang and Ladakh. Since then, the Chinese have continued to claim that the greater part of Ladakh’s Aksai Chin region should be inside the territory claimed by them." "The British did not pay much attention to the Chinese moves in this remote and inhospitable area, and, in order to create yet another buffer zone between the expanding Russian empire and Tibet, a new boundary was drawn in 1893. It became known as the Macartney-MacDonald Line and placed most of Aksai Chin on the Chinese side of the territory."