also spelt (Pinyin) Akesaiqin , isolated, inhospitable, and mostly uninhabitable plain on the northern tip of the Indian subcontinent, in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain ranges. Geographically an extension of the Tibetan Plateau, it is Considered a part of Ladakh, India. The Chinese call it the White Stone Desert. Aksai Chin figured in the boundary discussions between India and China in 1960, and severe fighting took place in Ladakh during the 1962 Indo-China conflict. It concluded with China seizing about 38,000 sq km of Indian territory in Aksai Chin, in addition to another 5,180 sq km of northern Kashmir that Pakistan later relinquished to Beijing under the 1963 pact.
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