Dalai Lama - China Talks Continue

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gestures after leaving a hospital in New Delhi
October 16, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)

Dalai Lama's Envoys Due In Beijing For Fence-Mending
-- Yahoo News/Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – Envoys of the Dalai Lama fly to Beijing on Thursday for closed-door, fence-mending talks, two sources with knowledge of the meeting said, days after he expressed dismay at China's attitude about Tibet's future.

The talks, the eighth round since 2002 and the first after Beijing hosted the Olympics in August, come amid growing concern about the Dalai Lama's health and the diminishing possibility of a meaningful settlement.

The exiled Nobel Peace Prize laureate, revered by Buddhists in Tibet and elsewhere, has said he wants a high level of autonomy for Tibet, but not outright independence. China considers him a trouble-making separatist.

Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, the Dalai Lama's envoys in Washington and Switzerland respectively, are expected to sit down for talks with the Communist Party's United Front Work Department, which deals with ethnic minorities and religious issues, the sources told Reuters requesting anonymity.

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My Comment: Nothing is going to come out of this meeting.