Distancing the Dalai Lama: Is Vatican playing into Beijing’s hands?

By Amit Dasgupta, The Sentinel | December 22, 2014

Nobel laureates gathered in Rome last week were dismayed that Pope Francis had surprisingly refused to grant an audience to the Dalai Lama so as to not incur Beijing’s inevitable wrath. Earlier the meeting was to be held in Cape Town to commemorate the first death anniversary of Nelson Mandela.

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XI JINPING’S VISIT & INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS- VIJAY KRANTI

A GENERIC SHIFT FROM NEHRU’S SUICIDAL IDEALISM TO PATEL’S SELF RESPECTING PRAGMATISM

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India appears to have happened at a time and in an environment that was surely not tailored in the same fashion as Beijing had got used to dictating since past many decades. It all started with the inauguration of Mr. Narendra Modi when the new establishment in New Delhi invited all heads of states from the neighbourhood except China — for whatever logic.

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