Category Archives: Elsewhere on the Web

• Exiled Tibetans in India’s ‘special force’ are only ‘cannon fodder’ 6 September 2020 | Zhang Hui 3 comments

  While for India, colluding with the exiled Tibetan and playing the Tibet card is only shooting its own foot, as China's economic power and military strength are much greater than India's, analysts said. ...

• Should China fear India’s new Rafale fighters? 2 August 2020 | Michael Peck no comments

  In the wake of border clashes between India and China, the Indian Air Force has received powerful reinforcements. Five French-made Rafale fighters have arrived in India, the first of 36 jets that will boost Indian airpower. ...

• If China Invades, Taiwan Could Target Shanghai And Beijing With Cruise Missiles 18 July 2020 | David Axe no comments

  If Beijing pulls the trigger and sends its forces streaming across the Taiwan Strait, the war could end quickly. Chinese rockets could pummel Taiwanese forces into submission, clearing the way for tens of thousands of Chinese marines. ...

• Why the Indian media’s leading Ladakh expert doesn’t live up to the billing 4 July 2020 | Kaveri Gill no comments

  Phunchok Stobdan, a former diplomat and author, has consistently disregarded historical and contemporary facts while holding forth on the ‘Buddhist Himalayas’. ...

• Is Nepal going the Tibet way? 23 June 2020 | Major General Mrinal Suman no comments

  Freedom once lost is extremely difficult to regain, especially from a ruthless tyrant like China. It may be the last opportunity for the people of Nepal to pull their country back from the abyss. ...

• ‘China Doesn’t See Us as Friends’: Patel’s Letter to Nehru in 1950 29 May 2020 one comment

  These are some of the questions which occur to my mind. It is possible that a consideration of these matters may lead us into wider questions of our relationship with China, Russia, America, Britain and Burma. ...

• Can McMahon Line dispute be resolved? 19 November 2019 | Pradip Phanjoubam no comments

  More than a century after the McMahon Line was drawn at the tripartite Simla Convention of 1913-1914 between British India, Tibet and China, uncertainty over the Indo-China boundary in the Northeast remains a festering sore. ...

• China’s Tibet enjoys development, religious freedom: Chinese ambassador to India 7 November 2019 one comment

  Tibet has been part of China since ancient times and it enjoys development and religious freedom, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong wrote in an article published in the Hindustan Times ...

• Commentary: 14th Dalai Lama’s ebbing influence in Tibet 7 July 2019 3 comments

  Sixty years after the 14th Dalai Lama, who fled China in the wake of a failed coup to resist the slave abolition reform, his following among people in Tibet is waning. ...

• Enigma of the Dalai Lama 10 June 2019 | Khalid Saleem no comments

  It is something of a pity that, despite having won the Nobel Prize for Peace, the Dalai Lama has hardly been seen as an agitator on the side of peace. ...