Articles By Claude Arpi
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...
Hans on the Frontiers: The Worrying Message of Chairman Xi
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 05 Aug , 2021
From July 21 to 23, President Xi Jinping went on an ‘inspection tour’ of Central and Southern Tibet. His visit was widely commented upon in the world media; especially as it was the first after a...
Bid to recruit Tibetans in China PLA may backfire
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 02 Aug , 2021
China has a serious problem. Beijing claims that it “liberated” Tibet 70 years ago, but in the recent confrontation in eastern Ladakh, it was the Tibetan troops serving with the Indian Army...
Why did Xi meet PLA Generals?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 28 Jul , 2021
On June 22 and 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) visited Lhasa after a gap of ten years. A day before, the Chinese president went to Nyingchi City (previously...
The Return of Hu Yaobang ...and Xi Jinping
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 24 Jul , 2021
Yesterday, Xi Jinping visited Nyingchi near the Indian border of Arunachal Pradesh and Lhasa. I will come back later on the visit, but this reminded me the visit of CPP’s General Secretary Hu...
The Butterfly Effect in Ladakh
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 21 Jul , 2021
For years, China and the US, the world’s two superpowers, have been competing to win the battle of supremacy, then the Covid-19 arrived, as insignificant as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings;...
PM Modi's Call to Dalai Lama is a Message to China on Succession Issue Important
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 10 Jul , 2021
Late one evening in August 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an unheralded meeting in Delhi, with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious leader living in exile in India since March 1959....
Xi Jinping is the New Führer
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 06 Jul , 2021
Like Hitler’s Germany, China is trying to expand its territory and influence not only in the Himalayas or in the South China Sea, but everywhere from Central Asia to Africa and South...
Recruiting Tibetans in the Liberation Army: not an easy task
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 04 Jul , 2021
The issue of recruiting Tibetans in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has recently come up in the Indian media. It is presently not easy to find out what is true and what is exaggerated, but I...
The Queen of Yume: Implications for India
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 04 Jul , 2021
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping distributed a number of ‘July 1 Medals’ to people “embodying a staunch faith in the...
India must back Dalai’s choice on his successor
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 17 Jun , 2021
The issue of the Dalai Lama’s succession has been in the news for quite some time, especially after the Tibetan diaspora elected Penpa Tsering as the new “Sikyong”, or president;...
Mr Xi, what have you gained in Ladakh?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 16 Jun , 2021
Comrade Xi Jinping General Secretary, Communist Party of China’s Central Committee President, People’s Republic of China, Chairman, Central Military Commission (CMC) Beijing, China Dear...
The Chinese New Highway to the Indian Border
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 13 Jun , 2021
On May 16, Xinhua reported that the construction of a new highway passing “through the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, known as the world’s deepest canyon with a maximum depth of 6,009 meters”...
Lhasa invaded again ...by Han Chinese
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 11 Jun , 2021
According to China Tibet News Network, the permanent population of Lhasa is 867,891, an increase of 55.14% compared to the Sixth National Census. It is an enormous increase, particularly because...
Is Xi Scared of Tiananmen 1989?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 06 Jun , 2021
Since the beginning of the year, China has started celebrating the 100 years of the Communist Party of China. For the occasion, Chairman Xi, the new Mao, has decided to teach the history of Modern...
Origin of our Misery: The Mystery of Wuhan’s Lab P4
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 15 May , 2021
China has mastered the Art of Disinformation Warfare. Nearly one and half years after the dreaded Covid19 emerged in Wuhan and while the COVID-19 virus is still raging all over the world, having...