India’s Dalai Dilemma

As the world reacts to China’s crackdown in Tibet, India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. India can neither undermine its own democratic principles and abridge the freedom of speech of Tibetans on its soil, nor does it wish to damage its increasingly important relationship with China.

As the world reacts to China’s crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it. India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

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