Talk:Aksai Chin

Small pink bits

What are the three other small pink bits further south from the big pink bit along the border between India and China ?

Lead sentence

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Welcome back (July 1?) I'm away until a week after that. Yikes....check out the edits I made yesterday to Aksai Chin. I didn't realize until now when I looked further down the history what a battle it's been for you and Keithonearth to attempt to reign in Hindutashravi who is way out of touch with the facts. Some days (like all this week) I get to work on Aksai Chin all day, and next week will be headed over as tourists again to Ladakh but I didn't mean to jump into this article uninvited and not via the discussion page.....I was just trying to correct some of the geographic trivia (heights, rivers, Soda Plains is only the northern part) plus the rather important and verifiable fact that India showed the line variable and indistinctly until the 1954 Nehru decree; only then did their maps start showing Aksai Chin as part of India uniformly; McMahon Line and the 1963 Pakistan treaty (I added a ref to the actual text) don't apply here. (We know the guy quite well who started the erroneous speculation on the internet that the '63 Pak treaty somehow is relevant to Aksai Chin at his slick-looking "International Boundary Consultants" (one-main show) page!), etc. I'll be away, but I'm with you on your efforts to maintain a modicum of the NPOV facts in this article!....keep up the good work. DLinth (talk) 14:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Second- and third-level administrative divisions in the first sentence

I believe the text highlighted below is unnecessary clutter for an already long first sentence:

Aksai Chin is a region administered by China partly in He'an County and Hekang County of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, and partly in Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and China since 1959. China administers the region and claims it as part of the Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous regions. India meanwhile claims it as part of Leh district in the union territory of Ladakh.

The shortened first sentence makes the same points about Chinese administration and the dispute between China and India:

Aksai Chin is a region administered by China and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and China since 1959. China administers the region and claims it as part of the Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous regions. India meanwhile claims it as part of the union territory of Ladakh.

Meaning-wise there is no change, but the first sentence is a lot less choppy, disregarding the fact that it is still a run-on sentence that should be split in two. The removal of Leh district would be made accordingly.

It is also worth pointing out that the two times these specific removals of mine were reverted (and I assume this is a mistake and the reverting editors did not notice), the efn notes I added that state the second- and third-level administrative divisions in a concise manner were not removed and are still in the first paragraph. In other words, the lead states this information twice because it is a combination of a previous consensus-based version and a version of mine that was reverted because I did not know there was an existing consensus. Yue🌙 (talk) 21:28, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

I just realised this as well: stating China administers the Aksai Chin back-to-back in the first two sentences of the article is also redundant. "Aksai Chin is a region administered by China ..." immediately followed by "China administers the region ..." Yue🌙 (talk) 21:32, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

There's enough room in the lead to put it out of a footnote, but not in the first sentence. Would that work? CMD (talk) 07:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis: Like so?

Aksai Chin is a region administered by China and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and China since 1959. China administers and claims it as part of He'an County and Hekang County of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, and Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. India meanwhile claims it as part of Leh district in the union territory of Ladakh.

Yue🌙 (talk) 02:40, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

We shouldn't combine the administration and the claim, the claims are independent of the specific administrative structure. For the China portion the "and claims" can be dropped, for India I would work something like "India claims the territory, considering it part of the union territory of Ladakh". CMD (talk) 03:08, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis: I agree with your first sentence; that's just how the current version is written ("China administers the region and claims it ..."). Opinions, @Kautilya3, Ratnahastin, and ZDRX? Yue🌙 (talk) 17:40, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

I agree with Chipmunkdavis's wording. The counties and territories have to do with the administration, not the claims themselves. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:59, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

CMD's version would look something like:

Aksai Chin is a region administered by China and constituting the easternmost portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and China since 1959. China administers it as part of He'an County and Hekang County of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, and Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. India claims the territory, considering it part of Leh district in the union territory of Ladakh.

Yue🌙 (talk) 20:42, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

He also reworded the third sentence in line with the rest. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:12, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Fixed in comment. Yue🌙 (talk) 23:14, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2026

In the third paragraph under the section Demographics and Economics, there is an error where the sentence reads; In the 1958..., when it should read In 1958... Brofung (talk) 06:35, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Fixed –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 08:50, 12 June 2026 (UTC)