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The Dalai Lama’s meeting with U.S...
reports that the Dalai Lama’s administration admitted receiving annual payments of $1.7 million from the CIA in the 1960s. Part of this money was intended to fund guerrilla operations. No doubt there is more information about this out there.A “broad context” includes the fact that in the late 1950s and early 1960s the United States did not recognize the People’s Republic of China and did not have official relations with it. The U.S. was, in fact, engaged in subversion against China. It was doing the same with Cuba. Then it moved on to Vietnam. President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1974 ushered in a new era in world history.
It should come as no surprise that Beijing always has this past in mind. Whether history will repeat itself is another matter.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political correspondent Dmitry Kosyrev)
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