{"id":44249,"date":"2014-12-17T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44249 "},"modified":"2014-12-17T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:47:00","slug":"44249-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44249","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last"},"content":{"rendered":"
16 December 2014 Last updated at 23:29 ET<\/div>
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The Dalai Lama: “Whether the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue or not is up to the Tibetan people”<\/div>
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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said he realises that he may be the last to hold the title.<\/div>
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But he told the BBC it would be better that the centuries-old tradition ceased “at the time of a popular Dalai Lama”.<\/div>
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The Dalai Lama suggested the UK had taken a soft line with China over Hong Kong’s recent student-led pro-democracy protests for financial reasons.<\/div>
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He also said the international community needed to do more to encourage democracy in China.<\/div>
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“China very much wants to join the mainstream world economy,” he said.<\/div>
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“They should be welcome, but at the same time the free world has a moral responsibility to bring China into mainstream democracy – for China’s own interests.”<\/div>
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‘Moral responsibility’<\/div>
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The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet.<\/div>
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Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a “splittist”, though he now advocates a “middle way” with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet.<\/div>
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