Articles By Claude Arpi
Chinese Panchen Lama visits an 'Indian' Village
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 26 Jul , 2022
On July 22, China Tibet Network posted an article announcing that the Chinese-selected Panchen Lama (Gyaltsen Norbu) visited a village on the Indian border: “Panchen: Guarding the border is a...
Season of Coincidences and Change
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Jul , 2022
Do you believe in coincidences? Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama reached Ladakh on July 15. Two days later, the 16th round of Corps Commander-level meeting between India and China is to be held...
Double Standards with Chinese Characteristics
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 25 Jun , 2022
June 15 is a special day in the Middle Kingdom; it is the birthday of the Secretary General of the Communist Party of China. In 2020, probably wanting to please China’s new emperor, an officer...
Xi Jinping will lead China for record third time, but is much weaker than we...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2022
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be held in Beijing in November this year. About 2,300 delegates, representing an estimated 90 million members, will meet in the...
Where is China Going?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2022
Soon the Games are over. The Emperor of China, Xi Jinping, with his colleagues of the Politburo, had planned a grand show to prove to the world that the Middle Kingdom was one of the two most...
China shifts into propaganda overdrive in pandemic era but world is...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 06 Jan , 2022
Can we today take Chinese propaganda seriously? I don’t think so. Take the issue of democracy. On 9-10 December 2021, US President Joe Biden organised a ‘Summit for Democracy’, bringing together...
1971 War: When world woke up to Pakistani terror and India’s endeavour to...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 23 Dec , 2021
“Bangladesh Bangladesh, When the Sun Sinks in the West” my generation still remembers the crystal-clear voice of Joan Baez, the youth icon of the ‘flower generation’, supporting an action...
US wanted China to intervene against India in 1971 War
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Dec , 2021
Rarely the birth of a new country became an event observed by the entire planet; it has happened for Bangladesh. Soon after the Pakistani army crackdown on sleeping unarmed Bengali students at...
Indianness of Arunachal is not to be proven to anyone: Pema Khandu
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 18 Dec , 2021
This is the second part of my interview with Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Indianness of Arunachal is not to be proven to anyone. ‘Our love for our great nation — Bharat is...
'We are well prepared for any eventualities'
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 18 Nov , 2021
The first part of my interview with Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh ‘We are well prepared for any eventualities’. In April 2011, Dorjee Khandu, the chief minister of Arunachal...
The Phantoms of Chittagong: The Unsung Tibetan Heroes of the 1971 Bangladesh...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Nov , 2021
On 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh, we need to recall one of the best-kept secrets of the war: The role played by the Special Frontier Force, a highly trained Tibetan regiment...
Dragon Flaunts ‘Firepower’ across LAC to ward off Growing Internal...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 23 Oct , 2021
What is going on in China? One thing is sure that the Middle Kingdom is going through turbulent times, to say the least. One just needs to look at the 13th round of the India-China Corps Commander...
Stop China from Erasing ‘The Heart of the World’
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Oct , 2021
Have you heard of the “Hidden Land of Pemako”? It is the area where China is planning to build mega hydropower stations in the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) during its...
Who were the Mysterious ‘Tibetan 419 Troops’ in 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 13 Oct , 2021
China always speaks of the 1962 War against India as a ‘Self-Defence Counter-Attack’. In this context, the setting up of the Z-419 Force was a turning point in the unfolding confrontation...
Nothing new in Dragon’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomacy; it actually started...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 05 Oct , 2021
India has to fight her own battles alone, and should not expect any ‘friend’ to come to her rescue, especially when facing China Nothing new in Dragon’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomacy; it...
The Importance of Tibet – ‘Ethnic Work’ in Progress
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 16 Sep , 2021
Why are Members of the politburo of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee so attracted by Tibet these days? During the last two months, ten out of the twenty-five members of the...
Mingling like the Pomegranate Seeds
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 09 Sep , 2021
On June 8, China’s Core Leader Xi Jinping visited Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Meeting a group of Tibetan villagers relocated in one of the Xiaogang villages...
Time to change the narrative on 1962 War
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 03 Sep , 2021
The event which has most marked the Indian psyche since Independence is undoubtedly the Sino-Indian conflict of October/November 1962. The best proof is that even a non-Congress government at the...
Wang Yang on the Roof of the Word
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 23 Aug , 2021
What is the Liberation of Tibet? China wants us to believe that it liberated Tibet 70 years ago. It did not really happen like this. It is true that on May 23, 1951, Tibet and China signed an...
India must revisit Tibet policy to stop Beijing bullying
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Aug , 2021
Xi Jinping visited Central and Southern Tibet after a gap of ten years. His objective was to ‘implement the party’s strategy for governing Tibet in the new era and write a new chapter in...