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India Annoys China. Again

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Indian Decade

India Annoys China. Again

Nirupama Rao’s meeting with the Dalai Lama will have annoyed China. It’s tit-for-tat.

Last week, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao visited Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh and met the Dalai Lama and top officials of his government in exile for over an hour.

As expected in these kinds of situations, neither the Ministry of External Affairs nor the Dalai Lama’s office provided any details about what was discussed. But Tibetan sources said privately the Dalai Lama’s security arrangements and the welfare of Tibetan refugees in India came up for discussion at the meeting, which was also attended by the Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

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