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Pelosi, the Dalai Lama and the message to China

The Tibet card is in play again. India will need to weigh what it gets out of the game.

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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (right) exchanges greetings with former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during their meeting at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, on June 19.

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (right) exchanges greetings with former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during their meeting at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, on June 19.

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There are times when you wish Nancy Pelosi would simply stay home.

In

August 2022, her visit to Taiwan,

as then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, came with the protective cover of a dozen American warplanes in the air, with backup from an aircraft carrier and other ships.

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