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Claude Arpi
About the AuthorClaude Arpi
The writer is based in South India for the past 40 years. He writes on India, China, Tibet and Indo-French relations.
    Claude Arpi | How Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama’s brother, fought for Tibet from his Kalimpong homeColumnists
    Claude Arpi | How Gyalo Thondup, Dalai Lama’s brother, fought for...

    The Dalai Lama said of his brother: “He was a good man who did his best for the Tibetan cause. I pray he will take a...

    25 Feb 2025 4:47 PM

    Claude Arpi | Xi’s ‘mega dam’ plan a bid to sow fear in India, Asia?Columnists
    Claude Arpi | Xi’s ‘mega dam’ plan a bid to sow fear in India, Asia?

    Xi particularly mentioned his country’s breakthroughs in areas such as aerospace, deep-sea exploration and new energy...

    31 Jan 2025 4:46 PM

    Claude Arpi | Where the world is still one family: 50 years in BharatColumnists
    Claude Arpi | Where the world is still one family: 50 years in Bharat

    Fifty years is a long time. In October 1974, I left France, my country of birth. I had a dream: to settle in India to...

    3 Dec 2024 6:40 PM

    Claude Arpi | The India-China standoff: One border, two systemsColumnists
    Claude Arpi | The India-China standoff: One border, two systems

    On September 12, 2024, India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval met Wang Yi, a member of the politburo of the CPC...

    19 Sept 2024 6:40 PM

    Claude Arpi | China’s ‘salami’ warfare big danger to HimalayasColumnists
    Claude Arpi | China’s ‘salami’ warfare big danger to Himalayas

    The planet is being churned; and wherever one looks, one sees natural and unnatural (mostly man-made) disasters. It...

    22 Aug 2024 6:40 PM

    Claude Arpi | Delhi should not shy away from Dalai Lama contactsColumnists
    Claude Arpi | Delhi should not shy away from Dalai Lama contacts

    At the time of India’s Independence, the Dalai Lama’s government in Lhasa had little experience in diplomacy; to give an...

    9 July 2024 6:40 PM

    Claude Arpi | How China stokes unrest globally to contain WestColumnists
    Claude Arpi | How China stokes unrest globally to contain West

    At the end of an informal meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing...

    13 Jun 2024 6:40 PM

    Claude Arpi | China’s Communists and new & old game of pokerColumnists
    Claude Arpi | China’s Communists and new & old game of poker

    During the recently-concluded “two sessions” in Beijing, it was revealed that a card game “guandan” has become popular ...

    20 March 2024 6:17 PM

    Claude Arpi | China playing new border games close to Mt KailashColumnists
    Claude Arpi | China playing new border games close to Mt Kailash

    Western Tibet has a rich historical background, particularly in proximity to Mount Kailash, near the trijunction...

    23 Feb 2024 7:39 AM

    Jalil Abbas Jilani. (AFP File Photo)Opinion
    Claude Arpi | Why Pak politicians need to study Kashmir history

    On December 11, 2023, India’s Supreme Court upheld the August 2019 abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution,...

    4 Jan 2024 6:29 PM

    US President Joe Biden greets Chinas President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, California, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. (AP)Opinion
    Claude Arpi | As Tibet becomes Xizang, Delhi faces a new concern

    Communist China often changes the names of the people, places and even nations. It is the case of Tibet, which is now...

    22 Nov 2023 1:58 AM

    Claude Arpi | To integrate border areas, devise a new philosophyOpinion
    Claude Arpi | To integrate border areas, devise a new philosophy

    French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau had once said: “Nothing is so gentle as man in his primitive state, when...

    27 Oct 2023 7:03 PM

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