Here's how: both nations would accept the Line of Actual Control as the international boundary, with Pakistan and India keeping their territories.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Instead, the main diplomatic legacy of the Himalayas faceoff will be permanent damage to the Sino-Indian border accords of 2005, in which both states agreed to "strictly respect and observe" the de facto border known as the Line of Actual Control.

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