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Well, himself and the government of India, which has graciously hosted the Tibetan government-in-exile for, oh, the last fifty years without much to show for it but strained relations with China (the 800-pound gorilla on its back steps) and an influx of yet another hard-to-assimilate ethnic group, in the form of the Tibetan diaspora.
And, for tht matter, the government of the United States, which is really the only power with enough leverage to make the Chinese reconsider their Tibet policy, but which has kept well clear of the whole fucking mess all the while His Holiness talked first about full independence and then about Hong-Kong-style "one country, two systems" semi-autonomy.
Not to mention all the Tibetans, in Tibet and otherwise, who have watched as their monasteries have been razed and their nuns raped and millions of ethnic Chinese crowding into their towns and countryside, who've watched their children learning Mandarin at the government-run schools, who've seen their kids adopt the ubiquitous Chinese consumer goods and clothing styles and pop music and television, and who must, by this point, be wondering whether, even if His Holiness returns in triumph to a free and sovereign Tibet, there will still even be a Tibetan culture to revive.
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