"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.
He had been trying for years to get the report on to the public record, Maxwell said, adding that in 2012, he made the text available to several newspapers in India, who agreed it should be made public but thought that had to be done by the government.