India and China’s relations make for the most heated headlines. With a war in the past and at least three violent skirmishes in the last 10 years, the two nations seldom create good news.

But behind closed doors, top officials both in India and China have lately started saying something unusual. They say the tiger-dragon relations have never been as good as they are now.

This makes one believe that the Dalai Lama’s blunt announcement about continuing with the tradition of reincarnations without letting China meddle in it will spike tensions temporarily, but not break ties.

The Dalai Lama said in his speech: “As far back as 1969, I made clear that concerned people should decide whether the Dalai Lama’s reincarnations should continue in the future. I also said, when I am about ninety, I will consult the high Lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, the Tibetan public, and other concerned people who follow Tibetan Buddhism, to re-evaluate whether or not the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue. Over the last 14 years leaders of Tibet’s spiritual traditions, members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, participants in a Special General Body Meeting, members of the Central Tibetan Administration, NGOs, Buddhists from the Himalayan region, Mongolia, Buddhist republics of the Russian Federation........

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