By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, Dec. 18: The President of the Central Tibetan Administration, known also as the Tibetan government-in-exile, Penpa Tsering in an interview with Republic said that one of the reasons for such unprovoked aggression at the Line of Actual Control in Tawang could be the recent protests across China. “We fail to understand why China is entering into unprovoked belligerence on areas that are inhospitable, unliveable and inhabitable. The only reason I could think is that China is very insecure, as of today, and one of the symptoms that we witnessed was last month’s protests in many parts of China,” he said during the television interview.
Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army troops faced each other on the LAC in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, which resulted in around 20 soldiers from India and a much higher number on the Chinese side sustaining “minor injuries”. This is the first major incident of its kind since the 2020 Galwan incident where 20 Indian soldiers were killed and several others were injured following violent clashes. The LAC is divided into western (Ladakh), middle (Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Sikkim) and eastern (Arunachal Pradesh) sectors.
In the wake of these reports, Penpa Tsering stressed on how important it is to respect borders of one’s neighbouring countries, “We abide by the international agreement that Tibet had as an independent country with British India, whose legacy has been transferred over to the government of India. And as Tibetans, we follow the McMahon line . . . So, when Chinese government itself is not very sure of the sustainability of the communist party, then they keep these hotspots burning.”
“Tawang is important for the Tibetans because Tawang is on the border with Tibet and the sixth Dalai Lama was born there. That was not the first time that a Dalai Lama was born outside Tibet. The third was also born in Mongolia, so therefore, the relationship between the people of Tawang and people of Tibet are very close,” the top CTA leader further commented, adding that the Tibetan people are on the side of the Indian government in these instances of border aggressions.
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Having a US citizen be a CTA president probably pushed some buttons as well.
Nowadays, someone can just be cloned for reincarnation purposes. Who knows, with all these billionaires going to space, maybe some are even cloning themselves in places where regulations are lax. People are adopting 20 year old frozen embryos. What an interconnected globe. Push a button in one place and get ripples across the world. People do seem to have a skill of making problems where they do not exist. The bigger question may be, why?