China Upset about Dalai Lama's Monastery Visit

Pretty confrontational moves from a Nobel Peace Prize laureate!

The Dalai Lama, exiled leader of Tibet, is visiting a monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, a disputed border region between India and China. Arunachal is directly across the contested border from Tibet itself.

This visit comes about three months after His Holiness traveled to Taiwan, another of Beijing's tender points, to express his condolences to typhoon victims there.

Throughout his career, the Dalai Lama has advocated dialogue with the Chinese. Recently, however, he seems to have grown weary of playing nice while Beijing accuses him of inciting riots.

The next few years should prove to be yet another interesting chapter in the long history of relations between Tibet and China.

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