Subir Bhaumik
A bill passed by US lawmakers, seeking to counter China’s claim of controlling Tibet since “ancient times,” has landed on President Joe Biden’s desk a week after Delhi renamed 30 places in TIbet in a tit-for-tat riposte to China’s renaming of 60 places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state.
The bill seeks to promote a dialogue between Beijing and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, which Delhi is also keen on.
The Indian renaming of places in Tibet on basis of ancient Sanskrit and Pali texts is seen as an aggressive move by the re-elected Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to counter Chinese claims on Arunachal Pradesh which Beijing describes as “Southern Tibet.”
But China has so far refused any dialogue with Dalai Lama, attacking him as a “wolf in lambskin” and “splittist”. And it says Tibet is an integral part of China, a position India has so far accepted and seems likely to now challenge.
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