New Tibetan president-in-exile says he’s willing to reach out to China


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By ASHWINI BHATIA ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 27, 2021 DHARMSALA, India — The new president of the Tibetan government-in-exile said Thursday that he was willing to reach out to the Chinese government to resolve their conflict, though the sides haven’t had dialogue in more than a decade. Penpa Tsering, the former speaker of Tibet’s parliament-in-exile, was sworn in as president at a ceremony in Dharmsala, the northern Indian town where Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been living since he fled Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. The Dalai Lama participated virtually in the ceremony from...