{"id":29101,"date":"2012-08-10T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29101 "},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:52:00","slug":"29101-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29101","title":{"rendered":"Leader of Tibetan Government-in-Exile Seeks Talks with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; \">DHARMSALA, India &#8212; The political leader of Tibetan exiles says his year-old government remains committed to holding a dialogue with China on Tibet&#8217;s future.<\/span><\/p>  <p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; \">Lobsang Sangay became the government-in-exile&#8217;s prime minister one year ago Wednesday after the Dalai Lama stepped down as political leader of the Tibetan people. The Dalai Lama remains the spiritual leader.<\/span><\/p>  <p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; \">Hundreds of Tibetan monks and nuns prayed silently Wednesday at ceremonies in Dharmsala, India, to mark the government&#8217;s first year in office.<\/span><\/p>  <p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; \">Sangay said his government is committed to a dialogue process with Beijing &#8220;to resolve the Tibet issue on the basis of mutual benefit.&#8221; Past talks between the two sides have made no discernible progress.<\/span><\/p>  <p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; \">Sangay asked Tibetans across the world to mark the day by wearing traditional dress and offering prayers to show solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet. China claims the Himalayan region has always been Chinese territory, but many Tibetans say it was independent for much of its history.<\/span><\/p>  <p style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in; background:white\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">Read&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20120808\/as-india-tibet\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #034af3; background-color: white; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Lobsang Sangay says that his government remains dedicated to dialogue with China regarding the future of Tibet. &amp;nbsp;Sangay took over the leadership reigns from the Dalai Lama one year ago, though the Nobel laureate remains Tibet&amp;#8217;s spiritual leader.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}