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The writer is based in South India for the past 40 years. He writes on India, China, Tibet and Indo-French relations.

China and India agreed to end the lengthy Doklam standoff in August 2017, with Beijing reportedly abandoning plans to construct the road that had triggered the crisis. (Photo: AFP)

Claude Arpi: A long hot summer is ahead on Himalayan heights

It is a fact that in early 2017, everyone in New Delhi thought the Sikkim border was a settled issue.

13 May 2020 5:39 PM IST

Buses carrying members of a medical assistance team from Shenyang leave Shenyang Taoxian Airport upon their return home after helping with the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery effort in Wuhan, in Shenyang in Chinas northeastern Liaoning province on March 20, 2020. China on March 19 marked a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as it recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged, but a spike in imported cases threatened its progress. (AFP)

China begins Information Warfare

What China does not seem to understand is that even if she wins a few IW battles, this will not help her to become a...

23 March 2020 6:06 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP/File)

Whistleblower spurs China push for change

The announcement of the surge in new cases happened as the Hubei provincial and Wuhan municipal party secretaries were...

26 Feb 2020 6:35 AM IST

It is widely known that China also prefers the term Asia-Pacific to the nomenclature of Indo-Pacific which is preferred by countries like the United States and India. (Photo: AP)

Hans lead in China's poverty alleviation projects

In 2012, 98 million Chinese people still lived below the poverty line; a year later, 128,000 villages remained...

21 Jan 2020 4:40 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP/File)

As 2020 nears, challenges mount for Xi's China

China seems today to be caught in a vicious circle of repression and does not have a solution to come out of it.

19 Dec 2019 4:56 AM IST

World trade and China aside, the situation doesnt get any better for India even with the Asean countries, which constitute the 10 core countries of the proposed 16-nation RCEP. (Photo: PTI/File)

The truth about Ladakh's Shaksgam: Correcting historical wrongs in J&K

It is strange that the governments of China and Pakistan announced the agreement on the eve of important Indo-Pak talks...

18 Nov 2019 7:08 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raise hands together at Arjunas Penance in Mamallapuram, India. (Photo: AP)

Was Modi-Xi Chennai meet a civilisational' encounter?

The Indian communiqu© from the PMO said that the two leaders evaluated the direction of bilateral relations in a...

18 Oct 2019 1:26 AM IST

India and France: Enduring, reliable partners

India undoubtedly needs all its energies, resources and friends to fight on these two separate fronts.

4 Sept 2019 1:28 AM IST

Though the Kashmir Valley constantly draws the attention of the world media and the chancelleries in New Delhi, it is geographically a very small portion of the state and Ladakh is far more strategic for the nation, with two unfriendly neighbours on its borders. (Photo: PTI)

Tourism is changing Ladakh: It's a boon, but it also creates new...

The Lahaulis' was the first of a long saga of daring acts by young officers who, since then, have bravely defended...

30 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

China-Tibet concord dream fading fast

On June 9, Zhu commented on the visit of Branstad to Tibet, in The Global Times, the mouthpiece of the Party.

17 Jun 2019 1:15 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping

United Front Work' is now Xi's most potent tool

The consolidation of borders, the selection of the next Dalai Lama or influencing of personalities should concern India.

17 May 2019 1:57 AM IST

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama speaks during the World Peace and Harmony Conclave in Mumbai on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

In Tibet, an atheist regime talks of reincarnation

A worse contradiction is about the position of the atheist regime on the Dalai Lama's rebirth.

13 April 2019 1:31 AM IST