Tibet Archive

  • It is incumbent upon India to unshackle and salvage Nepal from its internal enemies and vested external interests.

    Threat from Nepal’s instability

    It is incumbent upon India to unshackle and salvage Nepal from its internal enemies and vested external interests.

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  • Beijing’s new Tibet strategy makes it mandatory to have Kathmandu as its only ally. In fact, there is enough evidence emerging to suggest that Nepal is progressively moving towards becoming China’s client-state.

    Strategic significance of Nepal’s secret deportation of Tibetans to China

    Beijing’s new Tibet strategy makes it mandatory to have Kathmandu as its only ally. In fact, there is enough evidence emerging to suggest that Nepal is progressively moving towards becoming China’s client-state.

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  • Strategic thinkers, who do not subscribe to Chinese lobby, have started drawing a picture that depicts China’s strategic efforts to “encircle” India from all possible sides. Besides building modern roads along Indo-Tibet borders, new Chinese Air Force formations have been stationed at such locations from where India can be easily targeted. Nuclear capable missile bases have been set up in Tibet region for the first time.

However, the media and the people need not panic. Indian policy makers are alive of the situation and they are using all possible measures to contain China on the unresolved border issue.

    India’s melting and fermenting borders and strategic ocean boundaries

    Strategic thinkers, who do not subscribe to Chinese lobby, have started drawing a picture that depicts China’s strategic efforts to “encircle” India from all possible sides. Besides building modern roads along Indo-Tibet borders, new Chinese Air Force formations have been stationed at such locations from where India can be easily targeted. Nuclear capable missile bases have been set up in Tibet region for the first time. However, the media and the people need not panic. Indian policy makers are alive of the situation and they are using all possible measures to contain China on the unresolved border issue.

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  • There are different views on the Indian policy towards China and the Tibet issue. I will write more on that some other day. I have reproduced here the letter written by then Deputy Prime Minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on November 7, 1950 on Tibet issue.

The letter throws light on the thought process of the Indian government vis-a-vis Tibet and China in the initial years after the independence.

    Sardar Patel’s letter to Nehru on Tibet

    There are different views on the Indian policy towards China and the Tibet issue. I will write more on that some other day. I have reproduced here the letter written by then Deputy Prime Minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on November 7, 1950 on Tibet issue. The letter throws light on the thought process of the Indian government vis-a-vis Tibet and China in the initial years after the independence.

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