Articles

China Intensifies Campaign to Assimilate Tibetans into Mainstream Han Culture

Tibet appears poised to initiate a vigorous campaign aimed at assimilating the Tibetan ethnic minority into the Han national mainstream. An important speech by Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Party Secretary Wu Yingjie, at a meeting of the District Par....

August 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Tibet , Article , Buddhism , Dalai Lama , Tibet , TAR , Han , Mandarin , Gyaltsen Norbu , Wu Yingie

Xi Jinping Visit to Tibet is Important and has Implications for India

Jayadeva Ranade Article

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) at Nyingchi’s Mainling Airport on July 21 at the start of a two-day (July 21-23) visit, without prior public notice. The visit, which comes shortly before the 70th anniversar....

July 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Tibet , Article , Xi Jinping , CMC , PLA , Tibet , TAR , Sichuan-Tibet railway , Lhasa , Nyingchi , WTC , Yarlung Tsangpo

China and the International Human Rights Regime

Hirak Jyoti Das, Research Associate, VIF Article

Introduction

China’s rise marked by the combination of high economic development, swift modernisation and authoritarian political structure has been highly attractive for other developing states to imbibe and follow course. In reality h....

September 25, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , UNHRC , Hong Kong , Tibet , Xinjiang

China’s Role in Eroding Tibetan Identity: Religious and Cultural Issues

Dr Himani Pant, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

Four years after passing a similar law in Xinjiang, the Chinese government passed the “Regulations on the Establishment of a Model Area for Ethnic Unity and Progress” in Tibet earlier this year. This contentious new law identifies Tibet “an ina....

September 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Tibet , Commentary , Tibet , Communist Party of China , Identity , Religious and cultural identity , People’s Republic of China

Addressing the China Challenge

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

(This is a modified version of the talk delivered by Mr. Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF at the Panchnad Research Institute recently)

I propose to dwell essentially on three issues namely the nature and gravity of this challenge, it....

September 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Pakistan , China , South China Sea , Taiwan , CPEC , PLA , COVID-19 , WTO , LAC , Tibet , Galwan valley , CBMs , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , data theft , Sino-US , Sinkiang

The Fallacy of One China Policy

Abanti Bhattacharya Commentary

“We support the One China policy. However, we expect you to also have a One India policy.” These were the words of the late External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj spoken to the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi in June 2014. With rising Chines....

August 18, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Tibet , Xinjiang , One China , One India , Taiwan Relations Act , Uighur unrest

Parliament and India-China relations

Rup Narayan Das Article

The recent accusation and allegations by the opposition parties particularly Congress with regard to the government’s handling of the India-China relations, in the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the India-China border was unfortunate and irrespons....

July 20, 2020 China , Governance and Political Studies , Article , China , foreign policy , opposition parties , Territorial integrity , LAC , Tibet , national interest , Members of Parliament , India-China war 1962 , Prof. NG Ranga , McMahon Line , forthcoming Parliament Session

Eastern Ladakh: Studying the ‘Warning Shots’

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The whys and wherefores of the Chinese aggression in Eastern Ladakh, cumulated with the larger peripheral belligerence in South China and East China Seas and the Taiwan Straits in 2020, have been debated ad infinitum. The events of Galwan Valley, Hot....

July 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , PLA , Strategic Support Force , Ladakh , Tibet , Galwan valley , ISR , Strategic Rocket Force , Xinjian , PLA Western Theatre Command

Border Brinkmanship: A Miscalculation by China

Air Marshal SS Soman (Retd.) Article

India and China have been engaged in a tense military faceoff that has witnessed numerous violent incidents over the last two months in Eastern Ladakh. The standoff has resulted from an aggressive border brinkmanship triggered by China, to assert its....

July 09, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , China , Taiwan , LAC , Ladakh , Tibet , Galwan valley , Xinjiang , Air Power , Expansionist

Implications of the Ongoing Tension with China along the LAC

Jayadeva Ranade Commentary

China has accused India of crossing and violating the LAC. On 5 May the Chinese media reports said: On the May 18th, a reporter from the Global Times (in Chinese) learned from sources that the Chinese border guards have strengthened control over t....

May 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , CPEC , PLA , Sikkim , LAC , Ladakh , BMP , Tibet , Military District