Articles By Claude Arpi
Exposing a repressive campaign in Xinjiang
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Sep , 2018
Chinese brutality towards the Uighur Muslim minority is not new but what is surprising is that nobody dares to question Beijing. Why these double standards? Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
Diplomat TN Kaul's 'serious affair' with a Chinese girl and what all went...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 03 Sep , 2018
History is often politically distorted and it is sometimes only decades later that one discovers it. The image that successive governments left of the Panchsheel Agreement is that it was “the...
All is not well in China’s PLA
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 01 Sep , 2018
The atmosphere of suspicion in the People’s Liberation Army is an indicator of the troubles within. Whether these are serious issues or just to ‘scare the monkeys’, is another matter. India...
Wang in Tibet: Sinicization of the religions in China
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 27 Aug , 2018
Tibet is an extraordinarily popular destination these days, not only for the 26 million Chinese tourists visiting the Roof of the World, but also for the members of the Standing Committee of the...
China is opening a new front in Ngari
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 23 Aug , 2018
During the last few years, Beijing concentrated on the development of Southern Tibet (Nyingchi and Lhoka prefectures), not far from the Indian border of Arunachal Pradesh (the McMahon Line). I...
One year after Doklam standoff: Will Bhutan increase deployment to check...
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 21 Aug , 2018
One year after Doklam Standoff: Will Bhutan increase deployment to check activities of Chinese Military? China has always been jealous of India’s special relation with Bhutan, which it claims as...
The curious case of Demchok
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 16 Aug , 2018
Of course, the Chinese intrusions into Indian territory are not innocent. Solutions are there which lie in the re-opening of the Demchok route. But is China ready to do this? Despite the Wuhan...
Turbulent times ahead for Xi Jinping
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Aug , 2018
The annual summer conclave of China’s bosses has just started at the beach resort of Beidaihe, 300 km east of Beijing, in Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province. Every year the main power brokers of...
Tibet and the 'Larger Issues'
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 12 Aug , 2018
Recently the Dalai Lama made some remarks on Jawaharlal Nehru and the Partition of India. Without going into the (unnecessary) controversy, it is interesting to see the views of the first Prime...
Repression in Xinjiang
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Aug , 2018
It was a rare admission. On July 23, The Global Times, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) admitted that the Party imprisons ‘extremists’, educate them and reform their...
How China's Tightened Control over Think Tanks is Impacting its Foreign Affairs
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 08 Aug , 2018
China is growing everyday into a more powerful State. It is at least what we are told by the world media. To paraphrase Napoleon, the world is trembling as China has awakened (the French Emperor...
All is not well in the Middle Kingdom
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 05 Aug , 2018
Authorities in China have forgotten to provide a translation of the ‘friendship pillar’ which reads: Tibetans to be happy in the land of Tibet and Chinese in the land of China. In 821 AD,...
We can't ignore Tibetan Turmoil
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 28 Jul , 2018
Tibetan Buddhism is in turmoil. Take the case of Sogyal Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama who wrote The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (and sold three million copies); he guided an organisation called...
China Attempting to Square the Circle
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 24 Jul , 2018
Jinping’s desire to make China a global power may land him in trouble as the Communist Party can’t rule without creating resentment. This will bring China to a dead-end. China is a big...
Yumemania continues
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Jul , 2018
I often mentioned Yume (or Yumai or Yumed) the tiny hamlet, north of the McMahon Line (Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh), on this blog. Since it was adopted by President Xi Jinping...
An Empire and its Nervous Periphery
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 15 Jul , 2018
China has been expanding its boundaries to fulfil its dream of becoming the world’s most powerful nation. But the picture is not rosy. Resentment among the best of China’s friends is...
Follow the Party: But where are the Tibetans' Allegiance?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Jul , 2018
On July 4, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee, called on the CPC members to implement “the Party’s organizational line for the new era and...
The Dalai Lama: the Difficult Years
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 09 Jul , 2018
The Dalai Lama turns 83. He will be celebrating his birthday in Ladakh at the Shiwatsel Phodrang, the teaching ground at the outskirts of Leh. Yesterday the Dalai Lama told the press: “I am very...
Conspiracy of Silence
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Jul , 2018
One of the biggest failures of the present government has been to ignore post-independence history. To give an example, South Block still does not declassify historical documents and transfer them...
Is France India’s naval ally in the Pacific?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 05 Jul , 2018
A close Indo-French collaboration can only be a win-win proposition. About a year ago, I attended a conference in Delhi; the topic was the Indo-Pacific, a fascinating topic, though at first I...