With a thick nib

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Communist China's first president Mao Zedong executed the 1962 war plan. Friction between Mao and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was evident in the latter's forward policy. An Indian research scholar in Taiwan told DNA: "Not only was China always unhappy with the McMahon Line and considered it as drawn with a thick nib, but also China wanted to teach Nehru a lesson after Mao was snubbed by Nehru, who refused him permission to talk to the then Indian president Rajendra Prasad, on the basis of his foreign policy."

Please explain to me the highlighted parts.

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Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Communist China's first president Mao Zedong executed the 1962 war plan. Friction between Mao and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was evident in the latter's forward policy. An Indian research scholar in Taiwan told DNA: "Not only was China always unhappy with the McMahon Line and considered it as drawn with a thick nib, but also China wanted to teach Nehru a lesson after Mao was snubbed by Nehru, who refused him permission to talk to the then Indian president Rajendra Prasad, on the basis of his foreign policy."

Please explain to me the highlighted parts.

Loosely speaking, a nib is the point of a pen, the metal part where the ink is.

Wuth a narrow nib, you would draw a narrow line.

With a thick nib, you would draw a broad line.

The term above is a figurative way in which the writer seems to to say that the McMahon Line lacks precision in some way.

Clive

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