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Beijing's plan to pick the next Dalai Lama

25 May 2021

7:40 AM

25 May 2021

7:40 AM

Imagine for a moment that Cuba picked the next Pope. That is the scenario which Lobsang Sangay, the then-Sikyong (the Tibetan government-in-exile’s head of state), asked the world to consider several years ago in light of growing concerns that the Chinese Communist party (CCP) would seek to select the next Dalai Lama.

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