Dharamshala: Tibetan Government in-Exile President Sikyong Penpa Tsering has announced that they plan to compose a book and map with original names of Tibetan counties.
He spoke about China's policy of changing the names of places and occupying areas. He said that the Tibetan Government in-exile is working to draft a new map of Tibet while composing of a book on old Tibetan names in its original format to counter claims made by China.
Speaking to ANI, Tsering said, "The work is still under work. We are still discussing the logistics and people who should be involved in this. So, I think it will take some time, it's not an easy job. It depends on how detail we want to go, or we need to go, so maybe to start with, we can start from township upwards to have Tibetan names in their original format, also the project will involve the composition of a book on the old Tibetan names of every Tibetan community or village that has institutional name so this will take some time. We are looking at one year but then every project when you have to go into detail, particularly look at boundary issues and all that there are sensitive issues also involved which we need to be very careful."
Asked whether it will counter China, he said, "The Chinese cartographic aggression is not only against Tibet, they are doing it in the East China Sea, in the South China Sea, with India in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh and so this is the overall policy of the Chinese government in expanding their territorial claims in the regions. So, which also expresses their imperial or colonial mindset about getting other territories under their domain which they claim as their sovereign areas but this all largely contested."
Sikyong Penpa Tsering welcomed the disengagement that happened between India and China in Ladakh. However, he highlighted the new developments that have been taking place in China, including naming two counties of Ladakh and building a dam.
When asked whether India should take measures to counter China, Sikyong Penpa Tsering responded, "Whenever we feel that India - China relation is taking one step forward then it goes back two steps so it's good that disengagement had happened in Ladakh and both the governments are happy but then again there are new developments on China naming two counties in the area of north of Ladakh and then the Brahmaputra building of a mega dam, which we have been talking for the many years and now came in the newspapers and Indian government has also responded to this."
"But not heard what Bangladesh has but this is going to be worse than a nuclear weapon because if something happens to that size of a dam that is why I say that the present quake that happened in Tibet is a nature's warning to the Chinese government that whenever they undertake mega infrastructure projects they have to do a thorough transparent environmental impact, particularly on the downstream countries," he added. (ANI)
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