China’s government in Tibet has claimed that the Dalai Lama is in talks with Beijing through “personal envoys” on the possibility of returning to Tibet.
Wu Yingjie, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee for Tibet, told Indian journalists in Lhasa that the talks were “ongoing and always smooth, but we are discussing only his future, not Tibet’s.”
Wu said several Tibetan leaders had returned to Tibet in the recent past, citing the case of a senior Lama in Chengdu province who was earlier living in Switzerland. “All Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama and the people around him, can return if they accept Tibet and Taiwan as part of China, and give up ‘splittist’ efforts,” he said.
Wu Yingjie, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee for Tibet, told Indian journalists in Lhasa that the talks were “ongoing and always smooth, but we are discussing only his future, not Tibet’s.”
Wu said several Tibetan leaders had returned to Tibet in the recent past, citing the case of a senior Lama in Chengdu province who was earlier living in Switzerland. “All Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama and the people around him, can return if they accept Tibet and Taiwan as part of China, and give up ‘splittist’ efforts,” he said.