Articles By Claude Arpi
India, China and the 'Long March of Deep Military Reform'
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 31 Dec , 2016
China has a Dream: to ensure economic prosperity, social stability, and a decent life to its citizens, but also to become a powerful nation; in fact it dreams to become one day the most powerful...
For India, CPEC is a Corridor to Nowhere
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 29 Dec , 2016
One fails to understand why Beijing is so adamant to not re-open the Himalayan land ports between India and Tibet, while at the same time, it is ‘inviting’ New Delhi to join the CPEC...
PLA out of the TAR Standing Committee
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 27 Dec , 2016
A new radical ‘reform’ is bound to create a lot of resentment in the ranks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA): generals commanding a military district or area have been removed from the...
A New Dam on the Brahmaputra
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 22 Dec , 2016
The construction of a second large dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (which becomes the Siang and later the Brahmaputra in India) is well under way. The dam is coming up at Gyatsa (Chinese Gyaca), a few...
On Dalai Lama, India stops being Defensive
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 19 Dec , 2016
China can keep complaining, but the Dalai Lama is a guest in India, and it is certainly the prerogative of the President to invite him to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The NDA regime is not going to be...
New Railway Lines in Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Dec , 2016
The Tibetan Autonomous Region’s government has been planned more than 20 new highways (included new routes from Lhasa to Nagchu; Dege to Chamdo; Chamdo to Jaka; Lhasa to Shigatse Airport; and...
Today’s India in not the India of the 1950s
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 15 Dec , 2016
Gen Zhao Zongqi is a rising star of the People’s Liberation Army. He spent most of his military carrier in Tibet where he occupied different posts before being transferred as chief of staff of...
More Roads to the Tibet Borders
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Dec , 2016
China actively continues to invest on infrastructure towards Tibet’s borders with its neighbours. According to Kangba TV, a new Yunnan-Tibet highway is under construction. The project will...
Can India emulate China in its Long March to Modernization?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 09 Dec , 2016
China has a Dream: to ensure economic prosperity, social stability, and a decent life to its citizens, but also to become a powerful nation; in fact it dreams to become one day the most powerful...
Connecting Heavenly Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 29 Nov , 2016
The Tibetan plateau is witnessing a great deal of infrastructure development. This is not new, but the Chinese investments have taken much larger proportions in the recent weeks. According to the...
The Chinese Tourists Arrive on the Indian Border
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 27 Nov , 2016
While Delhi remains stuck with its ‘colonial’ system of Inner Line/Protected Area Permit system, China has opened its side of the frontier to hordes of tourists coming to the...
One more Airport on the Plateau
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 22 Nov , 2016
Karze (or Garzi or Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is situated in Western Sichuan, in the historical Kham province of Tibet. Today, the so-called autonomous prefecture covers an area of...
'Hot' visit in Ulaanbaatar: Why China is again upset?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 21 Nov , 2016
Simply because the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious leader, has been invited for a four-day visit to Mongolia. According to China Radio International (CRI), Beijing has strongly urged Mongolia...
Beijing Cannot Ignore Indian Concerns Now
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 18 Nov , 2016
In the brouhaha created by Trump’s victory and Modi’s coup against black money, what the media missed was Xi Jinping’s Special Envoy Meng’s visit to India, wherein New Delhi conveyed an...
It pays to be tough with China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Nov , 2016
The change in Chinese maps began with the objective to protect a new road linking Tibet to Xinjiang in Aksai Chin area in the mid-1950s. Interesting news has been coming in from the high plateau...
Mr Meng's visit to India
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 14 Nov , 2016
In the brouhaha created by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States and Prime Minister Modi’s Grand Master Coup against black money, an event of great international...
Some Good News from the Border Front
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 09 Nov , 2016
C-17 lands in Manchuka First the Indian Air Force successfully carried out a test landing and take-off of C-17 Globemaster-III at Mechuka’s Advanced Landing Ground (ALG). A couple of years ago,...
Getting a Grip on Issues Regarding Forward Areas
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 07 Nov , 2016
Whether senior or junior, bureaucrats serving in the ministries of Defence, Home Affairs and Finance, should spend a weekend every month in the border areas. It should be seen as a ‘refresher...
Tibet's Party Boss visits Indian Border
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 06 Nov , 2016
According to The China Daily, Wu Yingjie, the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, visited Yümé (or Yumai) ‘the most sparsely populated town in China’ on October 12. The...
Special Force needed after India Ignores Border Intrusions on the Chinese Side
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 02 Nov , 2016
India is facing difficult situation on its borders; not only for the LoC with Pakistan, but also for the LAC with China. Between 200 and 300 Chinese intrusions inside the Indian territory occur...