Salman Haidar, The Statesman | March 30, 2017
New Delhi – Tawang has a very particular place in India-China affairs. When in 1959 the Dalai Lama fled from Tibet and made his way to India the route he chose took him through Tawang where he and his small entourage of fugitives crossed into India, to be received and welcomed with befitting honour.
Read moreClaude Arpi, The Asian Age | March 23, 2017
The identity of the attackers was not disclosed,” but they were obviously Uyghurs.
In August 2016, at the end of the annual closed-door meeting held at the beach resort of Beidaihe, an official statement announced that Zhang Chunxian would be replaced by Chen Quanguo as party secretary of the restive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Mr Chen was then serving as party boss in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), where he had shown his skills to “pacify” the restive Tibetans.
Read moreBy Lobsang Tenchoe We are writing this with utmost concern about the recent development in Dharamsala regarding the resolution taken
Read moreWhile Beijing projects a mild face abroad, it has not been so ‘normal’ at home. Claude Arpi, DailyO.in | February
Read moreBy N. S. Venkataraman, Eurasia Review | September 5, 2016
When President Obama received the Dalai Lama through the back door in his office a few months back, many eyebrows were raised. Many people justifiably thought that President Obama lacked the courage of conviction to receive the Dalai Lama properly in a manner befitting his stature and reputation as a man of peace.
Read moreTeng Biao, The Washington Post |July 28, 2016
Two years ago, I was invited by the American Bar Association to prepare a manuscript for a book to be titled “Darkness Before Dawn.”
Read moreBENEDICT ROGERS, The Wall street Journal |July 4, 2016 Britain could learn a lot from the way Germany broaches the
Read moreBy Kalsang Dhondup | June 6, 2016 Being the voice for a voiceless people is a great service but being
Read moreBy Choenyi Woser|February 29, 2016 (Translated from the original text in Tibetan) In this year’s election for the post of
Read moreOur exile system of government claims to be a democracy, but recent events have proven it to be quite the opposite. Yes, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has brought about a fundamental change in the system of government, transitioning from a theocracy to a parliamentary theocracy, to one that he hoped, after the devolvement of his political power, would become a truly democratic one. The truth is that we have failed to make his vision of a democratic and pluralistic exile community a living reality.
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