The Dalai Lama’s meeting with U.S...
you what this phrase mean. And in this case, the context is very broad, stretching back half a century.Tibet and China were merged during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and they have been a single state for more than 700 years, which is more than three times older than the United States. True, Tibet’s geographic location has made it relatively inaccessible and autonomous, and this will never change. And as the White House meeting has confirmed yet again, nobody disputes China’s current national borders. This is codified in international law, the UN Charter, etc. But the situation was different half a century ago.
The CIA’s role in the events of 1959 - when the Dalai Lama and tens of thousands of his compatriots left Tibet - is not well known. In 1959 China was in the midst of the Great Leap, Mao Zedong’s first destructive social experiment, and the Chinese authorities saw the unrest provoked by the lamas as a strictly domestic affair. They
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