Articles By Claude Arpi
Little Bhutan in Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 20 Jul , 2017
China quite amazingly is able to deny even the most undeniable facts. Geng Shuang , spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recently asked by an Indian correspondent, about the details...
When the Chinese Confuse the Issues
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 15 Jul , 2017
The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has purposefully created a lot of confusion about the trijunction between India, Tibet and Bhutan. He quoted time and again the 1890...
China is on a sticky wicket in Bhutan
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 13 Jul , 2017
Has China lost its gamble on a Himalayan ridge in Sikkim? It is too early to say, but some lessons can already be drawn from the scuffle between the Indian Army and the People’s Liberation Army in...
China Believes The Best Form Of Defence Is Attack
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 09 Jul , 2017
After completing my first book on Tibet in the 1990s, I looked for a title which could resume the content of my research. At the end of the 19th century, Tibet was a mere pawn in the Great Game...
The Great Game over Sikkim
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 06 Jul , 2017
The spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been vociferously trying to convince the Indian correspondents in Beijing about the1890 Convention (known as Convention of March 17,...
When China refuses to talk about Bhutan and Sikkim boundaries
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 04 Jul , 2017
Yesterday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Geng Shuang stated that the border in Sikkim was well demarcated, according to the 1890 Convention between Great Britain and China and Doka...
A World War over some sheeps and a few Yaks?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 03 Jul , 2017
As I mentioned in my last post, ‘differences of perceptions’ on the Tibet-Sikkim-Bhutan and the Sikkim-Tibet borders are not new. China used fully these differences during the Indo-Pakistan...
China tries to alter the status quo in Bhutan
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 01 Jul , 2017
China has recently tried to change the status quo in the Doklam area of the Bhutan-Tibet border. On June 29, the Royal Government of Bhutan, which had held 24 rounds of talks with China so far,...
The Tibet Recipe, a New Airport in Xinjiang
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 25 Jun , 2017
Xinhua announced yesterday the construction of a new regional airport in Xinjiang. It will be built in Yutian, a remote County of Hotan/Khotan Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region...
Trespass on Barahoti: We had it coming
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Jun , 2017
An improved infrastructure should be provided to the Indian Army and the paramilitary forces to man the area. According to PTI, on June 3, two helicopters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...
