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Tibetan assimilation, depopulation, displacement, villagisation, risky urban construction workforce employment, securitising China’s borders with India: all one united policy package

London: 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.

By N.S.Venkataraman     
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.

By N.S.Venkataraman

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.

By N.S.Venkataraman
A few decades back, the Soviet Union and China claimed that they were the torch bearers of communist philosophy in the world. Both of them declared that they were comrades in arms.

By: Phuntsog Wangyal

The story is about a slogan, “America is a Paper Tiger”. We students had to march often in streets waving red flags and shouting slogans like “We support the people of Chaoxian, Imperialist America is a paper tiger, Victory to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)” and so on. At that time, we had no idea what ‘Chaoxian’ (Korea in Chinese) meant and where America was in the world either. But we knew the tiger, a symbol of power we often see in Tibetan prayer flags. What the Chinese meant was that America is like a Tiger drawn on a piece of paper that looks fearful – but it is just an image that has no real strength.

By N.S.Venkataraman
The decision of the Government of India not to attend the opening or the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in response to China’s decision to make a regimental commander of the People’s Liberation Army, who suffered severe injury during the Gulwan clash, a torchbearer at the event, is a clear signal that India has finally decided to confront China once for all.

By N.S.Venkataraman
In the year 1950-51, when China entered  Tibet and ruthlessly suppressed the Tibetan protesters, the Government of India virtually kept quiet. Even then, several experts in India suggested to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to examine the feasibility of stopping China’s aggression of Tibet and Nehru was forewarned that the next target of China could be India.

 By N.S.Venkataraman

Prime Minister of India Narendra  Modi inaugurated the Kushinagar international airport in Uttar Pradesh, which would connect the key Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India.