China should shun old approach to India ties
It is a sad situation when two neighboring countries that have very strong reasons to be friends find strains in their relationship.
It is a sad situation when two neighboring countries that have very strong reasons to be friends find strains in their relationship.
Climbers have safely descended Mount Shishapangma in Tibet after avalanches left four dead or missing and two injured, according to the authorities on Tuesday.
Condemning China for incorporating Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in its new map, Member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, Dawa Tsering, said,…
China’s Ministry of Water Resources on Friday activated a level-IV emergency response to flooding in 13 provincial-level regions. The regions…
The Tibetan spiritual leader said this as he felt the mindset of China towards him is gradually changing.
In a statement, Pompeo said that access to Tibetan areas is increasingly vital to regional stability, given the PRC’s human rights abuses there, as well as Beijing’s failure to prevent environmental degradation near the headwaters of Asia’s major rivers.
'Sadly, the aspirations of His Holiness and the Tibetan people remain unfulfilled as the oppressive Chinese regime continues its disgraceful campaign of persecution,' Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives said.
Notably, the Tibetan Youth Congress and the Tibetan Women Organization jointly took out a rally in Darjeeling, appealing people to boycott Chinese products.
India ought long ago to have called Chinas bluff whenever the latter infringed into territories perceived by India as its own. It was China that started this game of infrastructure development quite early in the narrative. When China built a 1200-km long road in 1956 across Aksai Chin, of which some 180-km was claimed by India, to carve a route for Sianking, its westernmost province, into Tibet, India was caught napping.
China is on the horns of a dilemma. Can it afford to risk losing the sovereignty over a part of its proud belt and road project? That would not be the end of the saga of sovereignty. At stake would be Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, the Muslim province to its west which Mao Zedong captured rather curiously in 1950; it was formerly known as East Turkestan.
