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Tenzing Dhamdul's family fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Now a research scholar of Tibet based in India, Dhamdul's work is at the same time deeply academic but also personal. He talks to Hindol Sengupta about the Tibet Bill in the US which is awaiting presidential signature and seeks to transform the contours of engagement between the US and China on Tibet. Dhamdul talks about,
- why China is waiting for a time after the current Dalai Lama and why the Tibet Bill insists that only the incumbent Dalai Lama will select his successor,
- why China is trying to manipulate the succession of the Dalai Lama,
- why, after the current Dalai Lama, young and frustrated Tibetans might be far more aggressive,
- why Chinese aggression in Taiwan and in the South China Sea has re-triggered American focus on Tibet,
- why there is a bipartisan consensus on Tibet in America,
- and why India is playing a seminal role in propelling the Tibet Bill.