Hindi-Chini bhai bhai, says Dalai Lama
India | November 23, 2017 20:07 ISTThe Dalai Lama said that "China needs India, India needs China" and "they have to live side by side".
The Dalai Lama said that "China needs India, India needs China" and "they have to live side by side".
At an interactive session organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Dalai Lama also claimed that China and Tibet enjoyed a close relationship, though there were occasional ‘fights’.
Dalai Lama said that amid all the linguistic and cultural diversity in India, it is a country that is the "most stable, more peaceful" of the Asian nations.
China is working on ambitious project to divert water from Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the desert in Xinjiang region.
The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against the Chinese rule in his Himalayan homeland and he has been living in India in exile since then.
China claims Arunachal Pradesh as "South Tibet" and in April Beijing had announced Chinese "standardised" names for six places in retaliation to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's visit there.
The appropriations will be effective for the next fiscal beginning October 1.
Chinese media’s reports are being viewed as Beijing’s strategy to put psychological pressure on India to withdraw its troops from the Doklam Plateau
Amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Doklam area, reports have suggested that China may have quietly moved “tend of thousands of tonnes” of military equipment, including army vehicles and troops, to Tibet
Notably, PLA’s Tibet Military Command, which conducted the drills, guards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) of the India-China border along several sections connecting the mountainous Tibetan region
The Dalai Lama's sermons on ethics, non-violence, peace and religious harmony have made him one of the 20th century's most revered spiritual leaders.
Following the face-off, China has suspended the pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet where Indians travel via Nathu La Pass, which is shut now.
The deployment of the tanks expands the Tibet-based unit and has increased their fighting power.
China has included the controversial EPEC in its second scientific expedition to Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
The State Department, which sent the detailed proposal to the Congress as part of Trump’s maiden annual budget, described it as one of the “tough choices” that it had to make as its budget itself has been slashed by more than 28 per cent.
President Donald Trump has proposed zero aid in 2018 to the Tibetans, reversing the decades-old American policy of providing financial assistance to the community for safeguarding their distinct identity.
The Communist government of China is leaving no stone unturned in destroying Buddhism in the country, according to the chief executive of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile Lobsang Sangay.
A team of researchers from the US and China has warned about the disturbance being caused to the alpine grasslands in the Tibetan Plateau due to global warming, which threatens the ability of farmers and herders needed to maintain their animals, that
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