China’s Super Hydropower Dam and Fears of Sino-Indian Water Wars
The already-fraught relationship between China and India is becoming even more tense over Beijing’s plans to build a “super hydropower dam” in Tibet. Read More Here
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China Boosts Hopes Nepal Rail Link Can Get Back On Track
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells Nepalese counterpart Narayan Khadka that surveyors will examine the feasibility of plans to link Kathmandu with Kerung in Tibet. Talks on the project began in 2016, months after a blockade on the Indian border boosted efforts to strengthen ties with Beijing. Read More Here
The Clash Of Asia’s Titans
Chinese President Xi Jinping has picked a border fight that he cannot win, and transformed a previously conciliatory India into a long-term foe. This amounts to an even bigger miscalculation than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to see it coming. Read More Here
Tibet And China Clash Over Next Reincarnation Of The Dalai Lama
The controversies over the Dalai Lama’s successor are likely to have a direct impact on India; one possible scenario put forward by the Dalai Lama himself is that he could be reincarnated in a “free country”, likely to be India rather than Tibet. Read More Here
Xi Jinping To Lead Tibet 70th Anniversary Celebrations
After more than a decade, President Xi Jinping returned to Lhasa, leading a delegation to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the administrative and religious capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Read More Here
How British Imperial History Does (And Doesn’t) Shape The Sino-Indian Border Dispute
When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh in north-west India, in the early 19th century, he quickly recognized the region’s strategic significance. Not only was it an important conduit for trade with Central Asia, but its position on the frontier of India meant it could be used as “a strong outwork against an […]
China Is Building Entire Villages In Another Country’s Territory
China’s multilevel construction drive within Bhutan has gone almost completely unnoticed by the outside world. Bhutan must know, and other governments in the region are likely to be aware that China is active on Bhutan’s northern borders but may not have realized the full extent of that activity or have chosen to remain silent. Read […]
China’s New Tibetan Line Tracks The Indian Border
Travel times from Lhasa to the border city of Nyingchi, on the front line of the China-India military standoff and buildup, will be slashed from nine hours by road to about three hours. The rail artery runs in parallel with the Yaluzangbu River, the Chinese name of the Brahmaputra River in India that rises in […]
One Hundred Years Of Devastation
The Communist Party of China’s 1951 annexation of the water-rich Tibetan Plateau – the starting point of Asia’s ten major river systems – gave China tremendous power over Asia’s water map. In the ensuing decades, the country has made the most of this riparian advantage, but at an enormous social and environmental cost. Read More […]
China Offers Glimpse of Tibetan Life Without The Dalai Lama
The party is pressing a program to Sinicize Tibetan life through programs to separate Tibetans from their language, culture, and especially, their devotion to the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s traditional spiritual leader who has lived in exile since 1959. Read More Here
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