Claude Arpi's Blog

On this blog, I have repeatedly written about the folly of China's grandiose projects.  In this article published by The Guardian , P...

My article A Shaky Trembling Dragon has appeared in the New Indian Express . Read on...

The fourth session of the 11th National People's Congress, and the fourth session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese Peopl...

My article on China To overlook reality would be stupid appeared in The Pioneer .

Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor is supposed to have said: “When China will awake, the world will tremble”. Today as the Arab world ...

As Sudip Mazumdar quoted me in this article on Karmapa, I would like to add that the responsibility for feeding rubbish to a very gullible ...

China is nervous.  One understands when one reads the three articles from the Chinese press posted below. First, the number of major soc...

The National Security Archives Blog publishes some 'historic' documents on Qadhafi. Two days ago, I wrote about the poor 'intel...

It sounds as if Beijing is planning to send electricity from the mainland to Tibet, which is the region of the world with the highest hydro...

To attempt guessing the future of a Chinese leader, it is always tempting to look into his past or into his lineage. It is what US diploma...

My article Chinese dams are seeking to outshine the stars in the sky appeared in today's edition of DNA .

I have (quickly) translated part of an Op-ed published a couple of days back in the daily Le Monde on the French diplomacy and the tussle ...

Exceptionally, a posting in French for the release of my book "Tibet, le pays sacrifié" in e-format. The book can be ordered he...

Do you know that in recent years China has built some 25,800 large dams? More than any other country on the planet. Unfortunately, there i...

The 10th Plenum of the Party's 8th Central Committee of the CCP was held in September 1962, in Beijing.  This excerpt of The Private...

China is bound to become a new Sahel. That is why Beijing is looking at Tibet's waters to save China. Read my earlier posting on Gua K...

Abdul Wahid's family in Lhasa I have just been informed that Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu passed away on February 14, 2011. He was b...