Talks Between Dalai Lama And Beijing: A Turning Point In China's Tibetan Policy? — forbes.com

Since Tibet’s integration into the PRC in 1959, the Dalai Lama has traditionally been poorly seen by the socialist regime, who sometimes calls him a “devil in a robe.” At the end of August, however, the Tibet Autonomous Region’s deputy Party Secretary, Wu Yingjie, revealed to a delegation of South Asian journalists, that Beijing was negotiating with the spiritual head “about his own future”: his return to China and Tibet. Then on  September 17th, an unsigned blog piece posted on the website Sina.com (removed the next day – full translation here), quoting “insider sources,” suggested that Xi Jinping was  “probably” about to let the Dalai Lama “abandon Tibetan independence and come back to China on pilgrimage” (to Wutaishan, one of China’s holiest mountain).

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