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Dalai praises India for standing up to China
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said that he was “anxious” ahead of his Arunachal Pradesh visit and praised India for standing up to China. “I was very anxious before going to Tawang,” the Dalai Lama said in an interview to a private TV channel. “I did not want things to escalate between India and China,” the Tibetan leader said. Sino-Indian relations became tense ahead of the Dalai Lama’s trip to a Tibetan monastery at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, a sprawling region Beijing claims as its own.
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