XI Jinping and Putin are now the villains of peace
By: N.S.Venkataraman. There seem to be several things in common between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin. Whatever
Read moreBy: N.S.Venkataraman. There seem to be several things in common between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin. Whatever
Read moreBy: N.S.Venkataraman. Chennai: It is reported that respected the Dalai Lama has now reached Delhi after visiting Ladakh. Surprisingly, Indian
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Signals from China indicate that the Chinese government has evolved a strategy and action plan, to be partly implemented in the medium term and the rest to be implemented in long term and emerge as the most dominant country in the world. Obviously, it aims to emerge as a single superpower in the world, effectively dislodging the USA from the present superpower status and significantly reducing the influence of Russia and the European Union in the world.
India became independent on August 15, 1947, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) became independent on October 1, 1949. In the intervening period and before that, Tibet was an independent country. An early understanding with Tibet could have helped India to formulate a clear-cut border, duly ratified by both governments. And if this had been done, India’s borders with China would have also been resolved, thus avoiding the 1962 debacle and other conflicts, including the current stand-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Read moreBy N.S.Venkataraman The respected Dalai Lama’s 87th birthday was celebrated by the Tibetans, admirers, and followers of the Dalai Lama all
Read moreTibetan assimilation, depopulation, displacement, villagisation, risky urban construction workforce employment, securitising China’s borders with India: all one united policy package
Read moreLondon: In its attempts at countering a perceived Western pushback against what China calls its peaceful and inevitable rise, the Chinese government makes effective use of global institutional mechanisms with mixed success.
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On the 2584 Birth Anniversary of Gautama Buddha on 16th May 2022, ( Buddha Purnima day), I was all the time introspecting about Buddhist philosophy and inevitably started thinking about the great Buddhist country Tibet, which is now undergoing a stressful time.
Any time anyone anywhere outside China raises violations of the human rights of Tibetans, China instantly and angrily dismisses their concerns as illegitimate interference in China’s sovereign internal affairs. The substance of specific cases, of specific individuals who are being tortured, need never even be looked at, since human rights representations are just an imperialist excuse for meddling in China’s internal affairs. In China’s eyes, all talk of human rights is part of the vast imperialist conspiracy to weaken China, hold it back, prevent its rise.
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The 63rd Tibetan National uprising day was observed by Tibetans all over the world on 10th March 2022. Tibetans in exile protested in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on 10th March 2022, demanding that China should stop atrocities in Tibet and quit Tibet.
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