Landscape in Medog, China's Tibet

A close scrutiny of speeches and documents during Chinese premier Li Keqiang visit indicate that, while there are gains for both Beijing and New Delhi, overall China’s diplomacy scored more points, says Srikanth Kondapalli. The joint statement as well the press statements of the two premiers and the eight agreements signed between India and China on May 20 indicate an incremental progress in the bilateral relations. A close scrutiny of these speeches and documents indicate that, while ...

India-China border row in Ladakh has eclipsed unresolved water-sharing issues along the Brahmaputra. But for any agreement to work, it must involve the people who depend on the waters. When India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and China's president ...

The question how India and China can more effectively manage persisting thorny issues such as the border dispute and trans-boundary rivers is expected to emerge as the centre of talks as External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrives here on ...

Last month, the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, published a white paper on its armed forces. The document scrutinises the latest situation, fresh challenges and new missions; examines building and development of China's ...

Countercurrents.org Men may lie, machines do not. The substandard components allegedly supplied by a Russian Company for the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Southern India caused the Nuclear Plant to become a Speaking Tree. What it speaks now ...

Last week was India Water Week 2013 as New Delhi emphasizes efficient water management amid concern that China's construction of three dams on the Yarlung Zangbo River ― the origin of the Brahmaputra in Tibet ― may reduce the flow of water into ...

International Campaign for Tibet An avalanche of rock, mud and debris struck one of Tibet's major mining sites, Gyama copper and gold mine near Lhasa, on March 29, killing 83 miners who were mostly Chinese migrant workers. The disaster has focused ...

Rescue efforts have been halted at a mine near Lhasa due to fears that fresh landslides might add to the toll from Friday's disaster. 36 bodies have been recovered, and little hope remains of any survivors among the 83 buried under two million cubic ...

Chinese authorities are facing unusual criticism over mining projects in Tibet from both Tibetan writers and a number of prominent Chinese public figures, in the wake of landslips on Friday that left at least 83 people buried in a county near Lhasa.