recent news reports
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=133863
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=13582&t=1&c=1
suggest the eastern sector of the cnin dispute may be
more about the single district of tawang
http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/arunachalpradesh/districts/tawang.htm
than about the entirety of arunachal pradesh state
http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/arunachalpradesh/arunachal-pradesh-district.htm
as is more widely purported & presumed

so our recent inability to pinpoint the chinese
version of btcnine
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.discuss.boundary-point/9292
may simply be because there is & has historically been
more than one chinese version

but if the indian view that tawang is the only part of
arunachal really needing to be secured from chinese
pretensions is in fact correct
& that the rest of arunachal isnt in play at all in
any real sense
whether in its entirety or as shown partitioned here
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=27.5792708023995&TextLongitude=91.8791241489321&TextAltitude=7&TextSelectedEntity=7887220&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Large&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=arunachal+pradesh&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on&ResultsListbox=27.5792708023995%3B91.8791241489321%3B7%3B7887220%3BTawang%2C+Arun?chal+Pradesh%3BLarge%3BComprehensive
then i think we have finally found a point we can
safely describe as the last best hope of a chinese
version of btcnine

& this position is situated at the distinctive
turnpoint where tawang district meets the northern
terminus of the bhutan kameng border

or in other words
at the watershed trijunction & height of land shown
here
on the best known map
http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Centr._Asia/Topo%20maps_500k/G-46-A.jpg
just east of the 92nd meridian at roughly nlat 27d30m
albeit unassociated with any borders

& hence the attached best guessed tripoint stretching
diagram for the most realistic
if not still too fondly hoped & or vanishing
chinese position for btcnine

& this just to pause & complete our timely review of
this tripoint
as well as in the interests of best & fullest possible
coverage
before proceeding with the final handful of chinese
tripoints on the global tour

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