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offers the best hope of a solution to the problem of Tibet. The Dalai Lama has recently withdrawn, for lack of a Chinese response, his Strasbourg proposals offering China responsibility for Tibet's defence and foreign affairs in exchange for real autonomy in Tibet. The Chinese for their part say that the Dalai Lama's worldwide high profile campaign for Tibet suggests that
is not seriously willing to negotiate.
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Fuller details are contained in the enclosed
background brief on Tibet. I also enclose biographical details of the Dalai Lama.
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