Scion of Former Buddhist Dynasty Says CCP Has No Historical Records to Claim Indian Territory

Scion of Former Buddhist Dynasty Says CCP Has No Historical Records to Claim Indian Territory
H.E. Raja Jigmed Wangchuk Namgyal, the 34th generation of Ladakh's Namgyal Dynasty in his palace in Stok village in Leh, India, on Oct. 5, 2020. Venus Upadhayaya/Epoch Times
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LEH, India—As tensions between India and China remain high along the disputed border in Ladakh and as the Chinese have recently encroached on Indian territory, the scion of Ladakh’s oldest dynasty said his family holds testimony that the Chinese Communist Party has no claims over the region.

“My family is a testimony; as far as the community and the nomadic people who are living in this part of the world, they’re also part and parcel of the testimony,” H.E. Raja Jigmed Wangchuk Namgyal, the 34th generation of Ladakh’s former rulers, told The Epoch Times in an interview in his residential palace in the Stok village, 10.5 miles from Leh, the capital of Ladakh.

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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