Dalai Lama lets slip how India vetoed his meeting with China´s leader in 2014
(The Guardian India)

President Xi appeared open to discussing Tibet but the Dalai Lama´s hosts in Delhi were not so keen, a book revealsChina´s President Xi Jinping agreed to meet the Dalai Lama during a state visit to India in 2014, but the plan was quashed by Delhi, the Buddhist spiritual leader has said.The bombshell claim, which could signal that in the early years of his term Xi was open to the most radical shift in China´s Tibet policy in decades, was made during an interview for a book by Indian journalist Sonia Singh, an executive at the Delhi-based television channel NDTV. Continue reading...