As the stage has been set for a showdown between China and Tibetans over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, all eyes are on India’s approach to the situation.
India’s Tibet policy has often been criticised as incoherent, but it is deliberately ambiguous to keep its potency, according to Eerishika Pankaj, a scholar of China and Tibet and the Director of the Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA).
Even though India and China have not mentioned Tibet prominently in recent years in bilateral dealings, the issue remains central to bilateral tensions. For one, China’s subjugation of Tibet is the basis of the India-China territorial conflict.
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