Is there a China connection?

It is interesting that the other disputed area—Susta—has not been included in Nepal's new map.

Any remark by Indians whether there is a China connection in the new map of Nepal, at any level, has been strongly refuted by Nepalis. They dismiss linkages between the new map and China by saying that first, such hypothesis undermines the sovereignty of Nepal, and second, the new map is based on Nepali historical claims, as per its interpretation of the 1816 Sugauli Treaty, which fixed the Kali River as the western boundary of Nepal, disregarding other historical facts that explain the Indian position.