Articles By Claude Arpi
Tibet’s Waters for Xinjiang: Another Diversion of the Brahmaputra?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 29 Mar , 2017
The different ‘diversion’ schemes, whether of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) or the Indus River. Now, a new one has come to light. According to an official Chinese website, during the ‘Two...
How China could benefit from Pakistan's 'Dream Corridor'
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 27 Mar , 2017
For Pakistan, it was a dream come true. When President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad in April 2015, he pledged an eye-popping 46 billion dollars for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)....
An Epic Journey: The day the Dalai Lama came to India
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 24 Mar , 2017
The Tibetan spiritual leader’s upcoming visit to Tawang, the district through which he first entered India, is probably behind China’s new desire to claim the area. Claude Arpi recalls the Dalai...
Xinjiang: Relentlessly Beat and Strike Hard
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 22 Mar , 2017
Two years ago, during the ‘Two Sessions’, a senior Uygur military official declared that “terrorist attacks would not affect the overall stability of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur...
A Chinese: Closer Reflection On The Minorities Issue
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 15 Mar , 2017
Guess who is coming for dinner? On March 11, a rare event took place in Beijing: the seven members of the Politburo’s Standing Committee, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng,...
Gullible Innocents, or willing Propagandists?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Mar , 2017
The publication of pro-China articles by the India media raises two questions: First, why are Indian journalists propagating stories planted by Beijing? Second, can the Chinese be trusted even...
The Great Economic and Geopolitical Asymmetry between India and China
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Mar , 2017
At the end of the first round of the strategic dialogue between India and China co-chaired by Zhang Yesui, the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister and Jaishankar, the Indian Foreign Secretary, The...
A Train to Chumbi Valley?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 28 Feb , 2017
A Tibetan website has just announced that the Mila (spelt ‘Mira’ by the Chinese media) tunnel will be opened on June 30. According toTibetonline.cn, at an average altitude of 4,740 meters, this...
Defence Minister India should not have had
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 26 Feb , 2017
The Himalayan blunders of Krishna Menon are many. He humiliated competent Armed Forces’ officers and backed his cronies, though they were less capable. One of the results was India’s...
Chinese Dogs to Patrol Lhasa
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 20 Feb , 2017
Police dogs will now patrol the streets of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital; it was announced yesterday. It is a first. For the first time on February 16, the Tibet Autonomous Region’s Public Security...
New Highways in Xinjiang ..for Pakistani fish?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 16 Feb , 2017
Beijing has decided to invest US $ 24.8 billion (170 bn yuan) for constructing a network of highways in Xinjiang …for improving connectivity with Pakistan. This is the official...
The Aksai Chin Blunder
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 02 Feb , 2017
One of the Nehru Government’s biggest historical blunders has been the Aksai Chin road built by China on Indian soil without Delhi noticing it. Among the several lakhs of recently released...
The Important India-Japan Relations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 31 Jan , 2017
On New Year’s Eve, President Xi Jinping issued a stern warning to China’s neighbours: “We adhere to peaceful development, and resolutely safeguard our territorial sovereignty and maritime...
The Case of Barahoti, the First Himalyan Blunder
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 26 Jan , 2017
During the annual Army Commanders’ Conference held at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, one of the topics addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the three Service Chiefs was the...
The Integration of Military and Civilian Development
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Jan , 2017
I recently mentioned the new roads being built in Western Tibet (Ngari) towards the Indian border (G564 and G565). But that is not all. According to Kangba TV, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)...
New Highway near Mount Kailash
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Jan , 2017
The Chinese Law on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requires the State to consult the population about any new project; it is how some information on the new highway projects in Western Tibet...
Arrogance and Deterrence
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Jan , 2017
Several years ago, during an interview with a senior Tibetan Lama on the future of China, the venerable monk started quoting the Mahabharata; he said, “look at Ravana, he had become so arrogant...
Impermanence, Impermanence
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Jan , 2017
As President Xi Jinping arrived in Islamabad in April 2015, he was welcomed by huge billboards in Chinese and English: the friendship between China and Pakistan was ‘higher than mountains,...
Nehru’s Advisor and Tibet’s Tragic Fate
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 04 Jan , 2017
I recently came across a telling note written on October 31, 1950 by Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, who served as Secretary General of Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations in the...
‘Tibet’ Tiger’s Heads are Rolling
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 02 Jan , 2017
Reuters reported that General Wang Jianping has been placed “under investigation on suspicion of taking bribes.” According to the news agency, it is the “first incumbent senior military...