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Time for India to Reset its China Policy?
Rajesh Singh Commentary

Once Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government return to power—as most observers believe it will—it should be more unequivocal in projecting the country’s policy towards China. Perhaps, it is time that N....

April 09, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , POK , Taiwan , Dalai Lama , Jawaharlal Nehru , Aksai Chin , Line of Actual Control , Arunachal Pradesh , Key words: Nancy Pelosi , Tibet.
Neighborhood News Digest- 05 April 2024

Afghanistan
Amnesty International Asks Pakistan to Reverse Refugees Expulsion Plan-Tolo News
Amnesty International has called for the immediate cancellation of the plan to expel Afghan migrants from Pakistan through a statemen....

April 05, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , economy , Maldives , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Supreme Court , Bangladesh , Artillery , Prime Minister , Dalai Lama , Geopolitics , World Bank , India-Bangladesh Relations , Civil war , Amnesty , Drones , Mines , Katchatheevu island , Upazila Election , BOP , Indian Troops in Maldives.
Neighborhood News Digest – 6 July 2023

Afghanistan

SCO Member States Call For Inclusive Government In Afghanistan – NDTV
Expressing concern about the situation in Afghanistan, leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States (SCO) called for an esta....

July 06, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Nepal , SCO , economy , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Dalai Lama , Srilanka , IMF , Inflation , Sweden , women rights , Suu Kyi , debt-trap , UNCTAD , Foreign Reserves , Quran , TAAI , Reclamation , NSCN , Potato Imports
China’s Systemic Mistreatment of its Religious Minorities
Rakshith Shetty Article

The Middle Kingdom and Its War against Religion: A Historical Perspective
When speaking to military students at Nankai University in 2013, Chinese professor Ai Yuejin said the following: “Do you know what the foundation for our nati....

February 14, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Buddhism , Dalai Lama , religion , Demography , Tibet , Xinjiang , Human Rights , Hans
Supreme Court’s Observations on Forced Conversions
Rajesh Singh Article

The issue of forced conversions from one religious denomination to another has been brought into fresh focus when the Supreme Court recently observed that such conversions were “dangerous” and that they were “seriously against the interest of t....

November 22, 2022 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Dalai Lama , Conversions , Kerala High Court , Niyogi Committee , proselytisation
China’s Efforts to Erase the Dalai Lama’s Influence and Promote Panchen Lama’s Influence are Yielding Minimal Results
Jayadeva Ranade Article

Chinese President Xi Jinping has increased efforts in recent months to try and erase the XIVth Dalai Lama’s influence inside Tibet and among the growing number of adherents to Buddhism elsewhere in China. This suggests an apparent urgency to ensure....

March 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Dalai Lama , Panchen Lama , Tibet , Communist Party
CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang’s Visit to Tibet Autonomous Region is Important
Jayadeva Ranade Article

The 3-day (August 18-20, 2021) visit to Lhasa by Wang Yang, Politburo Standing Committee member and Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), at the head of a 22-member delegation is important. The visit follows th....

August 31, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Tibet , Article , Dalai Lama , CPPCC , Wang Yang
China Intensifies Campaign to Assimilate Tibetans into Mainstream Han Culture
Jayadeva Ranade Article

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
Tibet is Headed for Major Changes
Jayadeva Ranade Article

The People's Daily on March 25, 2021, published a lengthy 3975-character article authored by Che Dalha (in Chinese: Qi Zala), Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Che Dalha’s important article, which included nine mentions of Xi Jinping, ....

April 02, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Tibet , Article , NPC , CCP , Dalai Lama , Tibetans , Mandarin , Border Defence villages , Hans , Putonghua , Sinicisation , Sichuan-Tibet railway
New US- China Cold War on Tibet and Take Aways for India
Vijay Kranti Article

(The tone and temper of the two latest laws of the USA on Tibet and Xinjiang that US-China honeymoon is over and we should be ready to witness a new phase of US-China cold war. Extraordinary coordination between Republicans and Democrats in both h....

January 12, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , China , Tibet , Article , CPC , Dalai Lama , reincarnation , Beijing-Dharamshala dialogue , CTA , Order-5 , Sikyong , TPSA-2020 , Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act 2020
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