Opinions
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India’s Ambiguous Support of One China Policy is Fuelling China’s Aggression
India’s continued ambiguous support of the One China Policy is fueling and welcoming China’s aggression and hunger to grab more former Tibetan areas that lie within the borders of India today. If India wants to fold China backward into the pages of history pushing them into their Middle Kingdom, behind their Great Wall, rejecting the…
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Tibetan Women in Exile and Empowerment
While visiting Mcleodganj in Dharamsala, or Majnu ka Tilla in Delhi, it is hard to ignore Tibetan women, donning the traditional Tibetan attire called chuba and colorful aprons called Pangdens, selling jewelry, woolens, artifacts, food items, and more, in the marketplace. The Tibetans are perhaps the most successful refugees and the Tibetan women are the…
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Tibet Key to Resolving Indo-China Conflict: Former Indian Foreign Secretary
The Indo-China conflict began from a long history of hostility. It all began in 1962 when China launched an invasion of Indian territory through the Aksai Chin area. Their justification for the act has two major reasons, one was that they refused to recognize the McMahon Line, claiming that the land belonged to them and…
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Grave Environmental Status of Tibet is a Serious Concern
The Tibetan plateau is the highest habitat on the planet and one of the last great unspoiled wildernesses. Excessive resource exploitation, improper infrastructural development, and deforestation by the Chinese authorities are all contributing to the extinction of many alpine ecosystems. Many Tibetans are enraged by the Chinese’s polluting industry. Around 20% of Tibet’s Autonomous Region…
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Is Ukraine becoming the new Tibet?
Is Ukraine on track to become the new Tibet? The Russian invasion of Ukraine today is eerily similar to China’s takeover of Tibet in 1959, in which a stronger nation invaded a weaker nation under the excuse that the two countries were once one. Is it normal for a larger, stronger country to attack and…
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Stories of Tibetan Women in Exile
In this piece, I present the stories narrated by four different women. I have used pseudonyms for the purpose of confidentiality. The stories are about the women themselves and their parents and grandparents. The stories emerged during the conversations with the women on varied topics. The stories not only highlight the struggles of fleeing the…
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China’s Seventeen-Point Agreement: A Subversion of the Patron-Priest Relationship in Tibet
From its inception, Tibet has been an independent entity, distinguished by the Tibetan alphabet and language, distinctive culture, geographical landscape, political system, and perhaps most notably by the Tibetan Buddhist religion. However, Tibet’s claim to its territory has been a source of contestation for centuries, with the most recent and arguably most brutal annexation of…
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Now is the time for India to start making amends for its Tibet blunder.
China continues to threaten India by bolstering its military presence along the Indian-Tibetan border, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure in India to prevent China from crossing the Line of Actual Control. Perhaps Modi is thinking along the same lines as Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950-51, deciding that India’s military choices against China are…
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What’s Behind China’s New Approach of “Tolerance of Religions?”
A new cultural revolution is underway in China. China, under Xi Xingping’s is now following a new approach; “tolerance of Buddhism, Taoism and other religions.” Perplexing it may sound, but it is a clever approach to manage the downfall in China’s global perception ratings. The sustained oppression of Tibetans, their culture and religious practices, as…
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Current state of China-India relations
Right now, there is a lot going on in the Indian subcontinent. A lot of it has to do with China in some way. Maoists’ overt move towards Beijing was the main reason for Nepal’s Communist government’s recent disintegration, prompting Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to leave office. In the Chumbi Valley, the Chinese…