In Zayul, the Chinese issued an order to the Chief of the Mijir Mishmis to open a track from Tibet to Assam. They also sent an expedition on the Delei river and planted their dragon flag at Menilkrai on the Lohit (South of Walong) with the inscription ‘The Southern Frontier of Zayul on the Borders of Sichuan Province of the Chinese Empire’.
The emperor states that the ‘Chinese world’ consists of only the explicitly-listed ‘13 provinces’; Tibet is not included.
China shared land borders with six countries before 1959; India was not among these six countries. This Natural Defensive wall collapsed in 1959 with the forceful occupation of Tibet by Communist China. China, now shares borders with 14 countries, and India is among these 14 countries
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