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Speaker Info: Tsering Topygal was born in Tibet and escaped to India at the age of 10 in 1983. From 1983 to 1994 he had his education in Tibetan schools in India. He graduated with a BA in political science from Berea College, USA in 2000, following which he took a Masters in International Relations and Chinese Studies in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), University of California-San Diego. From 2005 until now, he has been a PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations, LSE. Mr. Topygal is married to a Tibetan-British with one son, and is the editorial Production Manager at the European Journal of International Relations.
About the Talk: China’s grand strategy of “peaceful development” is described as a “transitional” strategy to create and maintain a peaceful and secure environment for China’s economic development to continue and for China to become a great/super power. China’s current grand strategy does not say anything about how China will behave once it has achieved that status. Meanwhile neighbouring countries have adopted hedging strategies vis-à-vis China. Tibetans are one nation, whose independence, de facto or de jure, was abruptly ended by a relatively powerful China. Since then Tibetans have struggled to survive under totalitarian and authoritarian Chinese regimes whose policies have been, on the whole, antagonistic towards Tibetan survival. Does the demise of the Tibetan state and how China relates with a nation under its control have something to say about China’s “peaceful development” and beyond?
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