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China ramps up military build-up in Tibet, Xinjiang By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Feb. 16: China has significantly increased its military build-up in Tibet and Xinjiang, according to a report published last year by Stratfor, a leading security and intelligence consultancy. It detailed growing evidence of the increasing military infrastructure of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in India and civilian facilities along the borders in Ladakh, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. China has reportedly embarked on an extensive campaign of building villages in disputed regions with the aim of settling t...

Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times. Read the article here. Experts say the move comes in a bid to bolster connectivity and infrastructure for operations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China is working on what appears to be a major military logistics hub at Xigatse in Tibet, acc

Surveyor rises to occasion again in Tibet By XIN WEN in Xi'an | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-08 09:25 Share CLOSE Bai Huagang (second from right) instructs his fellow surveyors on how to install the survey maker at Mount Qomolangma in the Tibet autonomous region last year. [Photo provided to China Daily] Expert involved in three missions reveals technical side of arduous task Measuring the height of Qomolangma, the world's tallest mountain, is a challenge 42-year-old surveyor Bai Huagang has conquered more than once. Swarthy and slim, the...

Highlights China and the CCP’s dream of prominence in the global order has driven them to strive for national unity causing them to trample on almost all forms of minority identity in the country From Uighurs in occupied East Turkistan to nomadic tribes in occupied Tibet, the Chinese government has tried to force the assimilation of different cultures in the pursuit of national identity Their aggressive tactics in the South China Sea, the Huawei-5G debacles, and their mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak has garnered them substantial criticism New Delhi: In an attempt to become a dominant p...

Dec. 31, 2020 11:23 am ET To realize the China of his dreams, Xi Jinping wants to meld the nation’s dozens of ethnic groups into a singular national identity. The program of aggressive cultural assimilation—or “ethnic fusion,” as it’s called in government documents and speeches—has gone to extremes in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the largest mass detention of a minority group since World War II. The campaign has begun to spread and intensify in other ethnically diverse areas. In Inner Mongolia, a plan to expand Mandarin-language education and mandate the ...