Phunchok Stobdan (born 20 December 1958) is a former Indian

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and served as the Indian ambassador to

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. He was also a senior fellow at

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), is an Indian think tank for advanced research in international relations, especially defence, strategic and security issues. It also provides training to civilian, military ...

, New Delhi, and was the founding president of the Ladakh International Centre. Stobdan is an academician, diplomat and author, who has earlier served in the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), which reports to National Security Advisor. Stobdan is author of the book ''The Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas: India and China’s Quest for Strategic Dominance''. The book looks at

China–India relations China and India maintained peaceful relations for thousands of years, but their relationship has varied since the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. ...

through prism of Buddhist

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. Stobdan also writes columns for ''

The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the ''Indian Express Group''. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight y ...

'' and

The Tribune (Chandigarh) ''The Tribune'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurgaon, Gurugram. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab (now ...

.Phunchok Stobdan (profile)
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