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Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader since Mao, has given no signs about who will succeed him. After more than a decade of political purges and centralisation of power, Xi faces no direct challenge to his authority and has signalled his intention to rule indefinitely.
However, even in such a controlled environment, the issue of political succession is never far from the surface. https://on.ft.com/4hDSRRv
In the years since, he has watched with alarm as China has continued its efforts to force Tibetans to assimilate, using tactics that include placing Tibetan children in boarding schools where they learn in Mandarin and are taught that the Chinese liberated Tibetans from serfdom. He also delivers blunt criticism of China’s treatment of its own citizens.
“Judging by Xi’s last decade in office, when it comes to individual freedom and everyday life, China seems to be reverting to the oppressive policies of Mao’s time, but now enforced through state-of-the-art digital technologies of surveillance and control,” he writes.
The Dalai Lama also addresses the fraught issue of his own succession.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that the Dalai Lama is the 14th reincarnation of previous Dalai Lamas, and that he is an enlightened being who returns in successive lives to continue his work as a spiritual leader. But the Dalai Lama has warned that China might try to choose the 15th Dalai Lama after his death, as it has done with the Panchen Lama, another high-level Tibetan spiritual leader.
The Dalai Lama Shares Thoughts on China and the Future in a New Book
The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he shares a detailed and personal account of his decades dealing with China.
The Dalai Lama is Tibet’s spiritual leader. He fled in 1959 after China’s occupation, and has worked to uphold Tibet’s culture, religion and language from exile since then. Credit...Vincent Kessler/Reuters
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During his decades living in exile, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, has published dozens of books — including two autobiographies and works on ethics, Buddhist philosophy and practice, and the overlap between religion and science. But he has rarely delved extensively into raw politics.
Now, in “Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle With China for My Land and My People,” which comes out in March, he offers his first detailed account of his fraught negotiations with a succession of China’s leaders, from meeting with Mao Zedong when he was just 19, to his more recent attempts to communicate with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials. It also delves into the Dalai Lama’s efforts to preserve Tibet’s unique culture, religion and language, and to ensure protections for Tibetans living under Chinese rule.
"When I meet people in different parts of the world, I am always reminded that we are all basically alike; we are all human beings." Happy 85th birthday to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. Read the Peace Laureate's Nobel Prize lecture: https://bit.ly/2EA4eJO Photo from when he celebrated his 83rd birthday.
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