China’s PLA plays mindgames in Tibet as Rajnath heads to Dushanbe for SCO meet
July 31, 2021Lokmat With the Ladakh tensions in the focus, China has stepped up mind-games with India by demonstrating qualitative improvements in its firepower in Tibet, ahead of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Dushanbe where his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe will also be present. The duo is participating in a defence read more →
China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas
July 30, 2021Robert Barnett for Foreign Policy In April 1998, with the Himalayan passes still more than 6 feet deep in snow, Penpa Tsering, a 22-year-old Tibetan herder, set off to the south from his home in Tibet across a remote 15,700-foot-high pass called the Namgung La. He was leading a train read more →
Risking China’s Anger, Blinken meets Representative of Dalai Lama in India
July 29, 2021Reuters, Simon Lewis – 28 July 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said, a move that is likely to provoke anger in China. Blinken met briefly with Ngodup Dongchung, read more →
Xi Jinping’s Tibet Tour is Chinese Propaganda, But India Must Take No
July 29, 2021CLAUDE ARPI, The Quint. 27 July 2021. The Chinese President’s discreet ‘inspection tour’ complicates things for India and Tibetan refugees. President Xi Jinping is back in Beijing from an “inspection tour” of Central and Southern Tibet. He went to Lhasa after a gap of ten years, though he had visited Amdo—one read more →
China’s official Panchen Lama tells Tibetan Buddhists to stay away from separatist forces
July 29, 2021South China Morning Post – 28 July 2021 Tibetan Buddhists have been told by a Beijing-appointed leader to stay away from “separatist forces” and adapt their religion to “socialism and Chinese conditions”, according to state media. Gyaincain Norbu, the Panchen Lama chosen by Beijing, made the remarks on a tour read more →
Opinion | On The Margin: Xi throws a challenge from Tibet
July 29, 2021Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tibet from July 21-23 is replete with significance and should be read right for its strategic implications by those entrusted with India’s external affairs, national security and defence. How New Delhi views this landmark visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) by a Chinese read more →
US red cards China over Xinjiang, Tibet and repression in Hong Kong
July 28, 2021Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi While Sherman visited China, the US secretary of state is coming to India on Tuesday evening to deepen bilateral ties with New Delhi. This includes stabilisation of Afghanistan, Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, counter-terrorism and cementing of defence cooperation. United States Deputy secretary of read more →
Ahead of US secretary of state Blinken’s visit, India says ready to engage on human rights
July 27, 2021By HT Correspondent PUBLISHED ON JUL 25, 2021 05:24 PM IST India has signalled that it is open to engaging on human rights and democracy with those who recognise the value of diversity against the backdrop of reports that US secretary of state Antony Blinken will raise these issues during his visit to read more →
Xi Tibet visit an expression of frustration, anxiety and arrogance
July 26, 2021Vijay Kranti for Sunday Guardian Live. Xi’s visit exposed the hollowness of China’s claim about Tibet being an ‘integral and inseparable part of China’ or that the Tibetans are ‘happy’ and ‘thankful’ to China for ‘liberation’ from the Dalai Lama’s ‘feudal’ rule. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sudden and dramatic visit read more →
Tibet-China, Afghanistan-Pakistan, and climate change jostle for attention in US-India meet under pandemic cover
July 25, 2021Chidanand Rajghatta for Times of India WASHINGTON: The United States and India will resume high-level-engagement early next week with clouds relating t Pakistan-Afghanistan, China, and climate change hanging over a aggravating Covid-19 crisis. US Secretary of State Anotny Blinken is heading out to the subcontinent this weekend, with a stopover read more →