Dalai Lama Return to Tibet May Be Simpler for China

Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, was lionized in the United States but denied a visa to meet Buddhists in Russia. Those different responses reflect China’s dilemma on whether to deal or not to deal with the charismatic leader.

Voice of the Dalai Lama

A day after the 9/11 horrific terrorist attacks, the Dalai Lama had urged President George Bush to ponder whether a violent response was the “the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and people in the long run.”

Calm Meadow Intersects Risky World

Foreign affairs is never entirely offstage in this city — so multicultural, so multilingual, so multinational, indeed so multi-everything, and that includes tasking and tsking. But we seem to be in for an unusually heavy dose of world issues this week.