By Dhananjay Sahai* Shortly after the annexation of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army, the Communist Government in Beijing began to tighten its grip over the region. Over the decades, Beijing has used economic development as a plank, and attempted to transfer large number of Han Chinese people into Tibet, and combined this with suppression of elements of Tibetan culture…
Unlike the Tibet Policy Act of 2002, the new act is substantially more comprehensive and assertive. Tsewang Rigzin* Outlook, 06 January 2021 After weeks of intense negotiations between Democrats and Republicans and uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s signature on the massive spending bill, the President finally signed into law The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 on December 27, 2020. With…
by Prof. Ramu Manivannan* There are several reasons to believe, as to why Tibet is important for India. The most significant reason is that Tibet is India’s neighbour. The Government of India no longer openly acknowledges this simple truth due to Tibet’s present status under China. The historical failure to defend Tibet as an independent nation has left us with…
The goal is to fuse Tibetans, Uighurs and other minorities into the majority ‘melting pot,’ like the Manchus before them. For many months, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been in the news for a number of reasons, from covering up vital information on COVID-19 and supplying millions of damaged masks, to the aggressive wolf-warrior diplomacy spearheaded by Foreign Ministry…
“The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them.” This is how the United Nation’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) describes itself on its website. Four hours ago, at the time…
Claude Arpi’s four volumes on Tibet’s relations with India show how China developed its Tibet playbook that includes encroachment, occupation, and the spinning of a narrative of false claims. The last book in the series focuses on the last five years of India’s diplomatic presence in Tibet By Thubten Samphel, Hindustan Times Sep 11, 2020 20:03 IST What’s happening with…
With China facing serious backlash both domestically and internationally, it wants to divert its people’s attention to the India-China border For the last two months, India and China have been involved in a military and diplomatic stand-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The current skirmish is not isolated from the main politics of China. It is but an…
*Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty [An Article in 2 Parts] Prologue On 28 March 1963, Sudhir Ghosh, the eminent Indian emissary of Gandhiji, and later of Jawaharlal Nehru, met with the President of the United States, John F Kennedy in the White House and shared the last testament of Sri Aurobindo [about the Chinese invasion of Tibet] that had appeared in Mother…
While the recent Galwan Valley incident is highly distressing, unfortunately, as long and Tibet remains under the total control of China, it is almost certain that such incidents will continue to happen. By Tsewang Rinzin Apart from the Tibetans, the greatest beneficiary of a Free Tibet will be India. The recent Chinese incursion and brutal murder of twenty Indian soldiers…
by Apa Lhamo* When power dynamics in India (1947) and China (1949) changed, the Tibet Question loomed large in the two Asian states’ bilateral arena. India’s Tibet Policy in the first five-six years of Nehruvian Government had a trace of British footprints, meaning Independent India accepted Chinese Suzerainty but not sovereignty over Tibet and Tibet had the power to conclude…
Palden Sonam, Political Analyst WITH the Covid-19 pandemic under control at home, China is adopting an aggressive strategic posture towards its neighbours with whom it has maritime and territorial disputes — from South China Sea to the high Himalayan range. Though there has been a flare-up of tensions at the India-China border in the past, the most serious in recent…
For the past few months, the world has undergone major changes in almost every aspects of life. Millions of people have lost their family members, millions of people are now infected, many more millions have lost their jobs, all because of the dreadful pandemic in the form of COVID-19. China, being the first country where the COVID-19 virus emerged, China…
For the Chinese Communist Party, doing business as usual means lying, betraying, and endangering the whole world, as it did before with SARS. From the time of its establishment in China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a very long history of lies and betrayals. From the denial of the existence of the road in Aksai Chin to India, and the betrayal to…
It has been nearly three months since Wuhan was locked down on 23, January. However, before the lockdown, the virus had already found its carriers and – with the help of modern transportation – the virus spread to more than 180 countries and territories. Currently, the dreaded Covid-19 has infected over 3 million people and killed over 200,000 worldwide. The…
The Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas India and China’s Quest for Strategic Dominance by Phunchok Stobdan Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Gurgaon, 2019 pp: 312, Rs. 599 The Himalayan belt, from Ladakh in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east, a total distance of more than 2,300 kilometres, was once a medley of cultures and dialects….