Dr Yashwant Singh* argues that the issue concerning the recognition of the reincarnation of the current Dalai Lama, when the time comes eventually, will force governments to adopt what may amount to a position on the political status of Tibet that they have so far managed to avoid by referring to religious repression, human and cultural rights, and so forth.
For decades, diplomacy toward Tibet has rested on a single unstated premise: that the hardest question could be deferred indefinitely. Governments could criticize religious repression without contesting sovereignty, host the Dalai Lama without endorsing independence, raise cultural rights in Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) while av...





