Opinion: China fuming over 6th Dalai Lama conference in Tawang

4 months ago

By Vijay Kranti

In late November when I received invitation to participate in an international conference on Gyalwa Tsangyang Gyatso, the famous and controversial 6th Dalai Lama at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, I alerted some journalist and diplomat friends to watch out  for a hot reaction from China soon. I didn’t make this prediction as a fortune teller. It was a simple assessment based on my five decades of observing the China-Tibet-India triangle. But what I could not predict was the level of pungency and anger that Beijing demonstrated to prove me right. Three days after the four-day Tawang conference which had conclu...

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