From Reuters, via The Washington Post:
An envoy of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will hold a fence-mending dialogue in Beijing soon, a Tibetan source said on Wednesday, even as China put the squeeze on his overseas trips.
China and the Dalai Lama’s envoys have been engaged in a painfully slow conciliatory dialogue since 2002, which analysts say is partly driven by the fear that if the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize dies in exile, it could lead to trouble in the Himalayan region. [Full text]
