Editing Aksai Chin (section)

=== 1899 to 1947 ===
Both the Johnson-Ardagh and the Macartney-MacDonald lines were used on British maps of India.<ref name="Guruswamy"/>{{unreliable source?|date=October 2019|reason=See [[Talk:Sino-Indian War#Sources]]}} Until at least 1908, the British took the Macdonald line to be the boundary,{{sfn|Woodman|1969|p=79}} but in 1911, the [[Xinhai Revolution]] resulted in the collapse of central power in China, and by the end of [[World War I]], the British officially used the Johnson Line.  However they took no steps to establish outposts or assert actual control on the ground.<ref name="Calvin"/> In 1927, the line was adjusted again as the government of British India abandoned the Johnson line in favor of a line along the Karakoram range further south.<ref name="Calvin"/> However, the maps were not updated and still showed the Johnson Line.<ref name="Calvin"/>
[[File:Postal Map of China ,1917.jpg|thumb|upright|Postal map of China published by the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] in 1917. The boundary in Aksai Chin is as per the Johnson line.|alt=]]
From 1917 to 1933, the ''Postal Atlas of China'', published by the Government of China in Peking had shown the boundary in Aksai Chin as per the Johnson line, which runs along the [[Kunlun Mountains]].{{sfn|Woodman|1969|pp=73, 78}}<ref name=middlepath /> The ''Peking University Atlas'', published in 1925, also put the Aksai Chin in India.<ref name="HimalayanBground">{{cite book|last1=Fisher|first1=Margaret W.|last2=Rose|first2=Leo E.|last3=Huttenback|first3=Robert A.|title=Himalayan Battleground: Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh|date=1963|publisher=Praeger|page=101|url=https://www.questia.com/read/10466588|url-access=|via=|isbn=|access-date=24 August 2017|archive-date=30 September 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140930113800/http://www.questia.com/read/10466588|url-status=dead}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> When British officials learned of Soviet officials surveying the Aksai Chin for [[Sheng Shicai|Sheng Shih-tsai]], warlord of [[Xinjiang]] in 1940–1941, they again advocated the Johnson Line. At this point the British had still made no attempts to establish outposts or control over the Aksai Chin, nor was the issue ever discussed with the governments of China or Tibet, and the boundary remained undemarcated at India's independence.<ref name="Calvin"/><ref name="Orton p. 24">{{cite book | last=Orton | first=Anna | title=India's Borderland Disputes: China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal | publisher=Epitome Books | isbn=978-93-80297-25-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcwkEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 | page=24}}</ref>