New DelhiThe Narendra Modi government’s public display of traditional Indian support to the Tibetan cause is a welcome move that would send a direct message to China, Prime Minister of Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Sangay said on Tuesday. The 48-year-old leader said that while all Indian governments followed the stated Indian policy on the issue of a sovereign Tibet, the Modi government has decided to make ‘the obvious’ public. The President had hosted the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace laureates at a conference on children’s rights. China had raised objection to the Dalai Lama being invited to the ceremony as it considers the spiritual leader a ‘splittist’. He also hoped the new US president Donald Trump would support the Tibetan cause.

Source: Hindustan Times January 17, 2017 19:35 UTC