Tag: Tibet
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Why India must rethink its Tibet policy
THE JULY 2 announcement by the 14th Dalai Lama stating that the traditional process of his reincarnation will continue is an occasion to examine Indian and Chinese responses, the reasons for the Dalai Lama’s decision and to ask the question of what Indian policy going ahead should be…
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Beyond the Military Prism: China’s Development Objectives in Xiaokang Villages in Tibet Autonomous Region
In 2017, China unveiled a policy to develop more than 600 bianjing xiaokang cun, or ‘moderately well-off border villages’, in 21 border counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region. This study examines how the policy is being implemented in 44 villages in four border counties in Ngari prefecture and in Droma county in Shigatse City using…
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The geopolitics in ‘Tibet border’ reference
RAJYA SABHA MEMBER Dorjee Tshering Lepcha from Sikkim hit the headlines last week for his call to the Union government to instruct the Indian Army and other agencies working in border areas to start referring to the ‘China border’ as the ‘Tibet border’…
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A Third Term For Xi Jinping Holds Little Assurance For India
Originally published at BQ Prime, 22 October 2022. India has several reasons to pay close attention to the ongoing 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). As a neighbour to China and as a country of similar size of population and length of history, it would be natural for India to assume…
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100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1
China Report Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2022 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1 Guest Editors: Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/chra/58/1 CONTENTSIntroduction: Towards Exceptionalism: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of History Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00094455221074169 ‘Yelling at the Masses’: Making Propaganda Audible…
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Xi Jinping in Tibet: What India Needs to Look Out For
The non-military uses of China’s civilian infrastructure build-up in TAR or Xinjiang must not be ignored
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The Great Chinese Anxiety
The Chinese people are anxious. The Communist Party of China (CPC) that governs them even more so.
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A Growing Chinese Presence in Nepal
China’s influence in Nepal has grown in recent years but in many instances, the Chinese have merely stepped into breaches created either by India’s inability to keep its promises or by its insensitivity.