Monday, November 9, 2009

Dalai Lama's Visit

The Dalai Lama has recently visited a town in Arunachal Pradesh, holding a gathering that numbered in the tens of thousands of people. China has never been friendly with the Dalai Lama ever since his exile in 1959. They claim that this and other events like it are anti-China.

China and India, at the moment, have a very strong trade relationship, although there are many arguements and fights over the lands that border both countries. Arunachal Pradesh is one of those areas, and before, India would not have allowed the Dalai Lama to hold such an event in a country that was being contested between China. India's allowing of the Dalai Lama doing such a thing shows the current tension that is building up between the two major powers.

By: Justas Jakubonis

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