New Delhi: Controversy has surrounded the Dalai Lama's visit to India in Arunchal Pradesh amidst the growing tension between India and China.
Beijing's Global Times has now quoted a researcher on Southern Asia, Hu Shisheng, as saying, "The Dalai Lama went to southern Tibet at this critical moment probably because of pressure from India. By doing so, he can please the country that has hosted him for years. When the conflict gets sharper the Chinese government will have to face it and solve it in a way India has designed."
The report also carries an observation from an unnamed scholar who says that "India has forgotten the lessons of 1962". The scholar has warned that India is again on the wrong track.
The Dalai Lama arrived in Tawang on a much-watched visit on Sunday, to a rousing welcome by hundreds of monks.
He has rejected Beijing's charges that he was spearheading a separatist movement and stated that he would never return to China until the Tibetans there were treated properly.
"It's quite usual for China to step up campaign against me wherever I go. It's totally baseless on the part of Chinese Communist government to say that I am encouraging a separatist movement," the Tibetan spiritual leader told journalists in Tawang.
He had stressed on the fact that his visit to Tawang was non-political and aimed at promoting universal brotherhood.
India and China fought a border war in 1962, with Chinese troops advancing deep into Arunachal Pradesh and inflicting heavy casualties on Indian troops. China has never recognised the 1914 McMahon Line agreed between the British and the then Tibetan rulers and claims 90,000 sq km of territory, that includes nearly all of Arunachal Pradesh.
A total of 140,000 Tibetans live in exile -- over 100,000 of them in India.
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