Opinions

George Fernandes, Defence Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, was bang on target when he famously said that it was China, not Pakistan or any other nation that was India’s biggest security threat. Again, it was not fortuitou

There is a satisfying symmetry in the coincidence that the announcement by the Nobel Committee of the award of this year's Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo came within a few hours of the 99th anniversary of the revolution that

NEW China has no money problem. When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited debt-laden Greece last week he promised to double trade in five years and buy Greek bonds wh

I have received some mild censure of late from friends and readers for my lack of enthusiasm for the upcoming kalon-tripa election. I did explain my position earlier in a number of my blogs that our present “partyless” political system was not a t

With or without a Dalai Lama and no matter what China says, the Tibetan diaspora will evolve into a state without

Around the globe thousands of Tibetan exiles went to the polling stations to cast their votes for the Kalon Tripa post. Participation in this election process was widely advertised by many and encouraged particularly by the masses themsel

Japan may have created the impression that it buckled under China’s pressure by releasing a Chinese fishing boat captain involved in a collision near islands that both countries claim. But the Japanese action has helped move the

2010 is already thick with them. China kicked off the year by warning Switzerland against accepting Uighur Guantanamo detainees and then warned Hong Kong ov

Sometimes an image stops you in your tracks. That's what happened to me the other day, as two pictures snapped in remote Tibet -- by a photographer who had no idea what he wa

It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance ... Tibet could become a creative centre for