LOL.
My dear Sir, these are not shocking facts, these are just the facts.
What IS shocking is that PRC offered, not once, but several times, a compromise solution, whereby India would cede Aksai Chin to the PRC, to the extent needed to cover their strategic highway from Xinjiang to Xijang to a satisfactory distance, and in exchange, the PRC, through its Autonomous Region, Xijang (Tibet to us lesser mortals), would cede us the tributary monastery of Tawang, severing it from the control of Shigatse (or Xigatse, as the Chinese prefer to spell it).
I have no comment on the refusal to agree to this. A Line of Actual Control in the form of a border, then, would have given us comfortable lines of communication between Daulat Beg Oldi in the extreme north to Chushul and from there to Manali via the passes. No comment because my English language skills are simply not up to the task.