Global Perspectives
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The region read from beyond it: Xinjiang, Southern Mongolia, Nepal, Bhutan and the wider Asian landscape.
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Global Perspectives
In 1949, the ancestral homeland of the Uyghurs—East Turkistan—was occupied by the Communist Chinese army. Following the occupation, both armed…
If one scans the global map, there is no country quite like Bhutan: a nation of around 700,000 people in…
For nearly eight decades, the Chinese state—and tens of millions of ordinary Chinese settlers acting alongside it—has pursued a relentless…
The prolonged controversy over Lipulekh Pass—an ancient Himalayan pass located near the trijunction of Nepal, India, and China—illustrates Nepal's increasing…
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