Facts about 1962 Sino-Indian war

"But nevertheless, the story emerges. From its very beginning as an independent state, India, which is to say Nehru in this context, took the view that the alignments of India's borders was a matter for India alone to decide, unilaterally, privately and definitively. "Without for a moment considering that good sense and good international manners pointed to the need to bring Beijing in to discuss their common border, Nehru and his close advisors selected the alignment themselves and put out new maps showing them as full, formal, final international boundaries...and including an area beyond what Britain had ever claimed, the Aksai Chin", the area captured by China in 1962 war.