Tibet’s silent sorrows: Xi’s Vietnam visit and death of a ‘rebel’ Lama

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A few days before Chinese president Xi Jinping departed for Vietnam, international media reported the ‘disappearance’ and then the death of a highly respected Tibetan Lama, Trulku Hungkar Dorjee, in the Southeast Asian nation read more On April 13, before reaching Hanoi on a state visit to Vietnam, President Xi Jinping said that he expects that it will be “an opportunity to work with the Vietnamese side to draw up a new blueprint for the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future”. Xi later pointed out that building a Sino-Vietnamese community of shared future is of great world...