The politics of the Dalai Lama's new initiative for autonomy (1).

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In recent years, the Dalai Lama has pursued a dialogic approach to the Tibet Question. He has significantly modified his views on autonomy and has made a number of fundamental concessions. His present position should clearly be distinguished from the stance he had from the late 1980s until recently. The Dalai Lama's views from that time are still fixed in the minds of many people, but in the main they no longer constitute his approach.

From the late 1980s until recently, for example, the Dalai Lama refused to even imply that Tibet is part of China. He stated in 2000: "The ...

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