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CENTRE FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Notice

The centre is organising a Students’ Colloquium on 3^rd of November 2011. The theme of the colloquium is “State and Development in East Asia”. Those who are interested to present a paper should submit the abstract of the paper (in about two hundred words) in hard copy to the seminar coordinator latest by 30^th of September.

Date: 19 September 2011

Dr. Ritu Agarwal

( Seminar Coordinator)

Prof. Kondapalli on POLITICAL DEMOCRACY FOR TIBETANS: CHINA’S RISING DILEMMA

Dr. Kondapalli, Professor in Chinese Studies, discusses Political democracy for Tibet in an article for IPCS, New Delhi. He points out that although the Dalai Lama had indicated his decision to devolve the “formal authority to an elected (Tibetan) leader” on several occasions earlier, however his statement on 10 March 2011 caught the Chinese leadership unawares. This statement came 10 days before the Tibetan émigré community went to polls to elect a new Prime Minister and other members to the Tibetan Parliament in-exile. While the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswomen termed the offer as a “trick to deceive the international community”, this move by the Tibetan spiritual leader is likely to impact China in the near- and long-term for a number of reasons....

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