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China agrees to meet Dalai Lama’s envoys April 25, 2008

Posted by Philip Ryan in Dalai Lama, News, Tibet.
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At heart China is a business, and this turmoil was hurting the bottom line:

China appeared to bend to international pressure on Friday as the government announced it would meet with envoys of the Dalai Lama, an unexpected shift that comes as violent Tibetan demonstrations in western China have threatened to cast a pall over the Beijing Olympics in August.