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….
By Kunsang Thokmay* In late October 2019, Sam Brownback, the United States ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, reported that he had told the 84-year-old Dalai Lama that the United States would seek to build global support for the principle that the choice of the next Dalai Lama should “belongs to the Tibetan Buddhists and not the Chinese government”. Two weeks later,…
By Dolma Tsering* Recently the Hindustan Times published an article by the Chinese government diplomat to India, titled “China’s Tibet: A story of Progress”. The article gives a quick overview of how Tibet had progressed in the last 60 years under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Among hosts of topics that he covers, economic development of the region…
This collection of short stories is the first attempt to provide a common and influential platform to some of the best Tibetan writers. People say don’t judge a book by its cover. That’s a fair comment. Some of the greatest books had lousy covers. But these books with lousy covers shaped people’s thinking and sustained their chosen way of life….
Claude Arpi shows that the 1954 Panchsheel Agreement’s guiding principle of non-interference in and respect for each other’s territorial integrity left China to do in Tibet whatever it willed Claude Arpi’s third volume on relations between India and Tibet covers the deepening Chinese penetration of the plateau and Beijing’s administrative and military consolidation there. The free hand given to China…
The Bells of Shangri-la is a tribute to the intrepid and determined scholars, explorers, diplomats and spies who put Tibet on the world map Thubten Samphel, Hindustan Times, Jun 22, 2019 The 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries were the age of exploration and discovery. It was a time when the West ‘discovered’ the unknown world. ‘Dark Africa’ was mapped….