Articles By Claude Arpi
In Bhutan too, Chinese grab land
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2014
On August 9, Kuensel, a Bhutanese publication, reported that the Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon arrived in Thimbu to ‘congratulate the new Prime Minister Tshering...
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 05 Jun , 2014
In 2009, soon after President Obama announced that Pakistan’s nuclear materials “will remain out of militant hands”, the US ambassador in Islamabad sent a secret message to Washington. Anne...
Will the wind blow from the East?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2014
The tides are changing. As Narendra Modi takes oath as the new Prime Minister of India, Asia is fast becoming the center of the world. Agence France-Presse reported that China and Russia signed...
Siachen was accepted as Indian Territory in 1949!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2014
The Boss of Pakistan says: “It’s time to resolve the Siachen issue”, but what General Kayani forgets is that the Siachen issue was ‘solved’ long ago, in fact, in July 1949. I reproduced here an...
Calling a spade a spade in dealing with China
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Apr , 2014
A friend recently asked me: “In your opinion, how should the new government deal with China?” I answered that first of all, I do not know who will be the next Prime Minister and then, perhaps more...
1962 War: Why keep Henderson Brooks report secret?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 18 Mar , 2014
“Even if the founder of the post-independence dynasty, Jawaharlal Nehru may have emerged in bad light in the Henderson Brooks Report, why put a blanket on the entire archives? Are we living in...
The People’s Liberation Army: Post Plenum III
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 29.1 Jan-Mar 2014 | Date: 01 Mar , 2014
The Third Plenum admitted that the forthcoming reforms would decide the destiny of modern China. The statement concluded with “the need to deepen reforms in order to build a moderately...
Chinese Innovations
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.4 Oct-Dec 2013 | Date: 20 Dec , 2013
When Steve Jobs passed away, experts debated as to why China did not produce its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg? One contributor to Forbes explained that the emergence of such...
The Chinese Dream is Over: The Seven Perils
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Sep , 2013
On August 19, an important meeting was held in Beijing during which President Xi Jinping called for a renewal of China’s focus on Marxist ideology. Xi was addressing a national conference on...
The Advancing Borders of the Chinese Empire
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol. 28.3 Jul-Sep 2013 | Date: 17 Sep , 2013
The incidents in the Depsang Plain, near the Karakoram Pass in April or more recently, in Chumar in South Ladakh, are the continuance of Nehru’s blind spot for China. There is today a huge...
Nepal: Namaste China
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 19 Aug , 2013
Nepal has become a full-fledged colony of China, with the Nepali leaders repeating blindly what Beijing tell them to say, using even the Chinese Communist jargon. According to China Tibet...
Can Tibet be defended?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: 1962 and the McMahon Line Saga | Date: 21 Jun , 2013
One often hears in Indian military circles that the ‘next war’ with Pakistan will be on Pakistani territory, though unfortunately, the ‘next’ one with China will be on Indian soil. With...
Mr. Li and the Three Idiots
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2013
Li came, Li saw (the Indian confusion) and Li won. It was not difficult. He spoke of the Three Idiots, a film that his daughter ‘forced’ him to see, and the Indian establishment (and media)...
The Sumdorong Chu Incident: a strong Indian stand
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 04 May , 2013
A few years ago, I wrote an article on the India, China and Tibet relations in which I mentioned the Sumdorong Chu incident in 1987. The strong stand then taken by the Indian Army allowed the...
Why New Delhi wants to forget 1962?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2013
While the Indian National Congress is still able to remember the role of former prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi in the India-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971, it has...
The killers' mace of the dark visitors
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.1 Jan-Mar 2009 | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
In February 1999, the PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House in Beijing released a fascinating book written by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, two Senior Colonels of the People’s Liberation...
Nepal invaded by China, for India's good?
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 11 Mar , 2013
The Chinese are slowly invading Nepal. A Nepali anaylsyt told AFP “In Tibet, unrest has significantly increased, so Chinese investment in Nepal should be understood in the context of China’s...
Indo-French Relations under President Francois Hollande
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 27.3 Jul-Sep 2012 | Date: 12 Feb , 2013
One may ask, “Will the election of Francois Hollande as President of the French Republic change Indo-French relations?” The answer is, certainly not. It is true that the word ‘India’ did...
The Bangalore Aeroshow 2013: Musings
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Feb , 2013
The thought that kept coming to my mind while walking kilometers under the hot sun of the Yelahanka Air Force Station, near Bengaluru (where the 9th International Exhibition on Aerospace, Defence...
Beijing's Map Aggression Now and Then
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
Yesterday, Xinhua reported that China “has inked for the first time South China Sea islands on its new official maps in equal scale to that of the Chinese mainland.” The National Administration of...