The Dalai Lama used to be the guy everyone wanted at their party. But since China's emergence as an economic superpower, he's become an awkward guest to invite.
Source/Credit: The Global Post
By Timothy McGrath | September 4, 2014
Governments around the world are unfriending the Tibetan leader
On the other hand, if you're the president, prime minister, or foreign secretary of any country in the world, then this face is giving you serious angina right now.
We learned on Sept. 4 that South Africa had denied a visa request by the Dalai Lama, the head of Tibetan Buddhism and symbol of Tibetan freedom, who'd been planning to attend the 14th world summit of Nobel peace laureats in Cape Town. (He won the prize in 1989.) It's widely assumed — and the Dalai Lama's representative to South Africa claimed — that the decision had to do with South Africa's economic ties with China, a country that considers the Dalai Lama a separatist.
From reading headlines around the world today, you'd think this was a major event in geopolitics.
It's not. The Dalai Lama is losing friends all over the place as the world undergoes a geopolitical realignment.
The Dalai Lama used to be the guy everyone wanted at their party. But since China's emergence as an economic superpower, he's become an awkward guest to invite.
Around the world, governments are limiting their contact with him — in some cases because of direct pressure by China, and in other cases, because of the chilling effect that pressure creates.
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