By Prashant Jha, Hindustan Times -Published on May 04, 2022 12:00 AM IST
Washington: Expressing full faith in the Indian government, Penpa Tsering, the head of the Central Tibetan Administration, has said India will take the right position at the right time on the question of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. His comments come even as India has remained silent on the question, while the United States, through an act in the Congress, has declared it would impose punitive measures if China interferes in the question of succession.
During a visit to Washington — where he met National Security Council Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell, senior State Department officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — Tsering also said that China is “very very insecure” about the situation in Tibet and spoke of his dialogue with Uighur leaders and dissidents from Hong Kong, all of whom are opposed to the Chinese Communist Party’s increased domestic repression.
In an interview to HT, when asked about the key takeaways from his visit, Tsering said, “We have been telling the world about China’s policies and programmes, how they think, how they repress people, how they have destroyed not just Tibet but many other nationalities in China. We have been speaking about this for the last 50-60 years and not many have been very considerate about our opinion. Now everybody seems to realise that China is the real challenge as of now and also into the future.”