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China’s ideology tsar views Buddhism reincarnation exhibition in signal to Dalai Lama

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China’s ideology tsar views Buddhism reincarnation exhibition in signal to Dalai Lama

China’s top political adviser has made a rare trip to view an exhibition about the reincarnation of Tibetan Buddhas, a sign that Beijing is getting ready to face the Dalai Lama succession issue ahead of the exiled spiritual leader’s 90th birthday next year, according to an analyst. Wang Huning, China’s fourth senior official and chairman … Read more

Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

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Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

Some 25 years before Deng Xiaoping first proposed “one country, two systems” as a creative political solution to facilitate Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau’s return to China, Mao Zedong tasked him with finding an answer to the Tibet issue. It was 1957, six years after Beijing and Lhasa signed the Seventeen-Point Agreement that confirmed Tibet … Read more