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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 | 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...

    4 Dec 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    20 Sept 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    23 Aug 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    10 July 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    14 Jun 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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 11:47 PM IST

    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 1:09 PM IST

    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 11:59 PM IST

    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 7:28 AM IST

    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...

    28 Oct 2023 12:33 AM IST

    Claude Arpi | The PLAs weaknesses are now evident on all frontsOpinion
    Claude Arpi | The PLA's weaknesses are now evident on all fronts

    After a four-month gap, the 19th round of talks between the Indian and Chinese generals at the corps commander level was...

    12 Sept 2023 12:08 AM IST

    Claude Arpi | China in suspense as Xi, 70, has junked succession planOpinion
    Claude Arpi | China in suspense as Xi, 70, has junked succession plan

    After Xi Jinping was accorded a third five-year term as China’s President in March 2023, the Associated Press...

    15 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

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