Dalai Lama succession, Panchen Lama disappearance raised during EU-China rights dialogue

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(TibetanReview.net, Jun15’25) – Any raising of any human rights issue with China is bound to be thorny and so it especially was when the European Union questioned it on its unabashed interference in the process for the recognition of the reincarnation of the present Dalai Lama during the 40th edition of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue in Brussels on Jun 13. The EU has also raised the disappearance since 1995 of Tibet’s second most prominent religious figure, the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, according to the scmp.com Jun 14.

While expressing concerns about a “deterioration of fundamental freedoms” in China, the EU has cited “government...

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