The tremendous potential for economic co-operation with China, if realised, will impact positively on the political ties between the two countries. This underplayed aspect of the Vajpayee visit may yet prove to be the catalyst
Belgian scholar Pierre Ryckmans coined the phrase the "100 percenters" to describe Beijing's international fans who support whatever China says 100 percent. Publishing under the pen name Simon Leys, Ryckmans compiled the statements of
What happened on 23rd of June in Beijing during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was the last thing that the communist leaders of China were prepapred for. In order to to score a point over the guests
Nothing better illustrates the perils of Brahmanical guile in diplomacy than the damaging controversy created over India’s stand on Tibet. That this controversy should have been avoided is evident from the confusion
Drinking yak-butter tea in the Himalayas is a natural high, writes James Elam. Yak's butter mixed with boiling water and salt. It sounds disgusting, but it's strange how tastes can change at 5000 metres above sea level.
Tibet activists must realise that further strangling Nepal’s near-dead economy will not encourage positive change on the part of the kingdom’s policy makers. Never mind the Maoist insurgency, every politically correct tourist now has a new reason to avoid Nepal.
In its anxiety to further improve relations with China and to wean Beijing away from Islamabad, has the government of India taken the first step towards writing off the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans and abandoning any role by India in
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee returns today, 27 June 2003, from a six-day visit to China. Several agreements were signed during the visit that attempt to address the most crucial matter of contention between both countries over the last half a century
