SPERLING DISCUSSES HISTORIC TREATY AND OTHER ITEMS
Elliot Sperling, professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, spoke briefly about the Tibet-Mongolia Treaty of 1913 that has long been a sore spot for China apologists who have difficulty denying the frank implication of Tibetan independence that underlies the very treaty's existence. A new copy of it emerged recently and stands to have an impact on the talks in Dharamsala.
China is also lashing out at the meetings in Dharamsala slated for next week, as well as at India for allowing them to happen.
Some things never change, and so the deliberations that recently occurred in China between the Chinese and the Tibetans reportedly yielded no results. This is unsurprising, sobering, and instructive, particularly in light of the the upcoming conference in Dharamsala.
With a bang or a whimper? . . . How will the meetings next week conclude?
