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The Importance of Pangchen
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Apr , 2023
China has recently renamed 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. The first-named is Pangchen; it is an important location, mainly because the border in this sector partly depends on the traditional...
China’s Interest in Arunachal Pradesh
By: Sudha Ramachandran | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Dec , 2022
“For Beijing, it is a bargaining chip for an eventual ‘swap’ and the recognition by India of the occupation by China of Aksai Chin.” Sixty years ago, on November 21, China declared a...
Indianness of Arunachal is not to be proven to anyone: Pema Khandu
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 15 Dec , 2022
This is the second part of my interview with Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Indianness of Arunachal is not to be proven to anyone. ‘Our love for our great nation — Bharat is...
'We are well prepared for any eventualities'
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 18 Nov , 2021
The first part of my interview with Pema Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh ‘We are well prepared for any eventualities’. In April 2011, Dorjee Khandu, the chief minister of Arunachal...
The Phantoms of Chittagong: The Unsung Tibetan Heroes of the 1971 Bangladesh...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 10 Nov , 2021
On 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh, we need to recall one of the best-kept secrets of the war: The role played by the Special Frontier Force, a highly trained Tibetan regiment...
Dragon Flaunts ‘Firepower’ across LAC to ward off Growing Internal...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 23 Oct , 2021
What is going on in China? One thing is sure that the Middle Kingdom is going through turbulent times, to say the least. One just needs to look at the 13th round of the India-China Corps Commander...
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...
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...
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...
The So-Called Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 22 Apr , 2021
The history of Mao’s China is a tale of well-planned and well-executed moves. All the events from 1949 onwards have unfolded in a perfectly calculated sequence: first, the invasion of Tibet in 1950;...
Xi's Mega Projects: Should India Worry?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 18 Jan , 2021
On the occasion of the New Year, President Xi Jinping called the Communist Party “a gigantic vessel that navigates China’s stable and long-term development;” he stated: “Upholding the...
The Most Serious Strategic Development on Indian Frontiers
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 13 Jan , 2021
One of the most secret projects of President Xi Jinping is to open a new link between Xinjiang and Tibet. The two restive Autonomous Regions border India, particularly the Ladakh region, which is...
How Pakistan surrendered in 1971 War
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 20 Dec , 2020
Lt Gen Ashoke K Chatterjee, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command speaks to Claude Arpi about the 1971 Bangladesh operations and his participation in the Surrender in...
Indian Army Ignores Chinese Propaganda
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 23 Nov , 2020
“PLA unveils new smartwatch for combat rescue, it features IoT SIM card, health tracking, Beidou positioning, individual recognition, SOS voice calling, injury reporting, rescue sensing, one key...
China is not a normal state
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 05 Sep , 2020
China is not a normal State, but this is a fact that most China ‘experts’ in India have, for years, failed to grasp this. Gautam Bambawale, who understands China well after serving as the Indian...
Turbulent times for Beijing
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 15 Feb , 2020
The world is going through tumultuous times. China, too, has not been spared. A dreaded virus has struck the Middle Kingdom and there’s no end in sight for the epidemic though it seems to be...
Wrong person at wrong time
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 31 Jan , 2020
India’s controversial Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon was recently in the news, courtesy a well-researched book, which did not elaborate enough on the implications for the country on account...
Hans lead in China’s poverty alleviation projects
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 22 Jan , 2020
In the recent months, China has started in a massive relocation scheme in Tibet, redrawing the demography of India’s borders. Beijing admits that though the rural poverty rate was more than 97.5...
Relocations on India’s Borders
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 11 Jan , 2020
In the recent months, China has started in a massive relocation scheme in Tibet, redrawing the demography of India’s borders. Beijing admits that though the rural poverty rate was more than 97.5...
India’s China agenda
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 05 Jan , 2020
There is no doubt that 2019 has been a special year for China: Lavish events were organised to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In 1949,...