For nearly eight decades, the Chinese state—and tens of millions of ordinary Chinese settlers acting alongside it—has pursued a relentless settler-colonial project in Southern Mongolia, with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) renaming the Mongolian homeland as ‘Inner Mongolia’. What is now unfolding under the cultural-genocide policies launched in 2020 is not a new development, […]
The Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping believes he is an epoch-making thinker. Unsurprisingly, being transformative, he has imprinted his signature on socio-economic, political, and geostrategic realms and beyond with the mantra: “East, West, South, North, and the Center; the Party, government, army, civilians, and intellectuals, the Party commands all!” Xi’s strategic guideline for governing Tibet […]
In 1949, the ancestral homeland of the Uyghurs—East Turkistan—was occupied by the Communist Chinese army. Following the occupation, both armed and ideological resistance continued in the region. During this period, the Chinese government declared the “autonomy” status in order to suppress Uyghur demands for independence and to consolidate its own control. East Turkistan was designated […]
If one scans the global map, there is no country quite like Bhutan: a nation of around 700,000 people in the high eastern Himalayas, situated between India to the south, and China to the north. By 2050, China is poised to be the world’s largest economy, with India the second largest. Both possess nuclear weapons […]
If the newly elected RSP government can take Nepal’s major international partners into confidence that it is simply not interested in ‘playing off’ India and China, or any other powers for that matter, but instead wants to leverage their economic heft for its own development, its message could resonate—especially compared to the older parties that were tainted by bias towards a particular country.
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