Articles By Claude Arpi
Why is China more and more Nervous?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 16 Apr , 2021
Despite the fact that the Chinese propaganda machinery is relentlessly working to make the world believe that the people in Tibet are the happiest on the planet, Beijing is nervous, very...
Tibet: Not Liberated Yet
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 10 Apr , 2021
Despite the fact that the Chinese propaganda machinery is working day and night to make the world believe that the people in Tibet are the happiest on the planet, Beijing is nervous, very...
The Colonizers’ Dilemma
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Apr , 2021
According to the website China Tibet News, many young Tibetans applied for recruitment in the Chinese Army in the first half of 2021. This was the first post Covid-19 recruitment exercise for the...
The Yarlung Tsangpo HPP: Mega Tragedy in the Making
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 05 Apr , 2021
Dave Petley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the UK has a blog which provides scientific information on landslides or mudslides occurring...
The Forgotten Hero of the Indian Air Force
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 02 Apr , 2021
Perhaps the main unsolved mysteries of the 1962 India-China War is the fate of 35-year old Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Vinod Sehgal, (sometimes is name is written ‘Sahgal’); the Vayu Sena Medal...
The Dalai Lama crosses the Indian border - rare documents
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 31 Mar , 2021
Today it is 62 years that the Dalai Lama arrived in India. On the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the arrival of the Dalai Lama in India, I had posted on my website a very large collection of...
The Return of Red Genes in Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 29 Mar , 2021
China has found a new love for history. But it is history with strong Chinese characteristics, in other words, far from facts. As mentioned in my previous post, March 28, which marked the...
The Big One
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 17 Mar , 2021
Recent developments not far from the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh are worrying. A notice from the Metok Border Management Brigade announced that from March 1, the Chinese authorities began...
The Mistake of the Century
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 15 Mar , 2021
President Xi Jinping is a poor strategist. Chinese are known followers of the Art of War, an ancient Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu, a Chinese general and military authority in the...
Living in Fear of the Masses
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 10 Mar , 2021
According to a notice from the Metok Border Management Brigade, from March 1, the Chinese authorities will begin “to check border pass, ID cards and other documents of people entering and...
Communism in China: A Hundred Years Later
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Mar , 2021
As China prepares to celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party, the world must remember the massacres which Communist regimes have unleashed throughout history and question why Xi Jinping’s...
The Indian Dalai Lama
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 04 Mar , 2021
In January 1951, a few months after the invasion of Tibet and sensing a threat from China, the then Assam Governor Jairamdas Daulatram ordered a young Naga officer to march to Tawang and start...
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India’s firmness, Xi Jinping’s political goals, explain China’s...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 27 Feb , 2021
A few months ago, most analysts were convinced that the Chinese would never vacate the occupied areas. But several reasons compelled Beijing to change its stance. A great deal has already been...
Trusty old allies India, France can Bond over Big Research
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Feb , 2021
What is required for France and India is to take their relations to the next level Concrete collaborations are, and will be, undoubtedly difficult, they will face obstacles, which in the end can...
The Man who brought Tawang under India: 70 years ago
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 10 Feb , 2021
The country recently saw some promising developments in the North-East. The Union Government signed a historic peace accord with Nagaland’s insurgent group — the Nationalist Socialist Council...
Chinese Village in Arunachal: India Must Speak Up!
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 22 Jan , 2021
On August 28, 1959, the Indian Ambassador in Beijing sent a strong note to China’s Foreign Ministry, to protest the fact that Chinese troops had violated Indian territory; after mentioning other...
Book Excerpts - 1962 War: Reflections of the Past
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 20 Jan , 2021
Introduction If one event has deeply marked the Indian psyche since Independence, it is certainly the short Sino-Indian conflict in October/November 1962. The publication of a new book (in this...
Xi's Mega Projects: Should India Worry?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 18 Jan , 2021
On the occasion of the New Year, President Xi Jinping called the Communist Party “a gigantic vessel that navigates China’s stable and long-term development;” he stated: “Upholding the...
Let the Staff go along with the Flag; the Typewriters can Follow Later
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 17 Jan , 2021
This morning, one of the pioneers of the Indian Frontier Administrative Service (IFAS) passed away. It perhaps marks the end of an era. KC Johorey, who later joined the IAS and became Chief...
The Most Serious Strategic Development on Indian Frontiers
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 13 Jan , 2021
One of the most secret projects of President Xi Jinping is to open a new link between Xinjiang and Tibet. The two restive Autonomous Regions border India, particularly the Ladakh region, which is...