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When you look down it’s nothing but shit, when you look up it’s nothing but assholes. Rule-based order in a nutshell.
The Dalai Lama’s been saying for years that he would have a huge, important announcement on his 90th birthday. Turns out this announcement was just a nothingburger, restating his position again. He’s already released multiple documents stating that his advisors would select their candidate for the next Dalai Lama.
I’m quite optimistic about Tibet. Most likely the Dalai Lama's advisors will pick an ethnic Tibetan in Arunachal Pradesh. It may be Tawang. They won’t choose reincarnation into an adult because that would be ridiculous (just imagine the questions about what happened to the adult’s original soul).
Thus there will be two Dalai Lama candidates, a Chinese candidate and an Indian candidate. Initially there will be a huge Western media uproar supporting the Indian candidate and attacking China. However, this artificial controversy will lack any foundation. You can only write so many stories supporting an Indian baby before people lose interest, as the baby cannot do anything other than continuing to be a baby.
Westerners have already noted that there will be ~2 decades before the next Dalai Lama comes of age. During that time, China will continue successfully integrating Tibet.
I also expect the Chinese candidate to be much more legitimate. He will be enthroned in the Potala Palace, accompanied by the Panchen Lama - with all the ceremonies, traditions, clothing, and authentic artifacts of the Dalai Lama. Meanwhile the Indian candidate will be an Indian citizen who has never set foot in non-Indian Tibet. He may also have some Indian habits that appear strange to Tibetans.
India's reputation has also declined. Tibetans use the Internet like everybody else. Like other East Asians today, they may feel somewhat superior to India or believe that India is dirty. This may diminish the credibility of the Indian candidate.
The one factor which I fear, and which has been completely ignored, is the possibility of a defection. In fact, this has already happened once, with the Karmapa Lama. This is a very understated and dangerous possibility. However, I think this is unlikely. The Panchen Lama has not defected. Additionally, life and human rights in Tibet have substantially improved from say the ‘80s or ‘90s. Thus I believe that a Tibetan spiritual figure would find China credible and remain patriotic.
I’m quite optimistic about Tibet. Most likely the Dalai Lama's advisors will pick an ethnic Tibetan in Arunachal Pradesh. It may be Tawang. They won’t choose reincarnation into an adult because that would be ridiculous (just imagine the questions about what happened to the adult’s original soul).
Thus there will be two Dalai Lama candidates, a Chinese candidate and an Indian candidate. Initially there will be a huge Western media uproar supporting the Indian candidate and attacking China. However, this artificial controversy will lack any foundation. You can only write so many stories supporting an Indian baby before people lose interest, as the baby cannot do anything other than continuing to be a baby.
Westerners have already noted that there will be ~2 decades before the next Dalai Lama comes of age. During that time, China will continue successfully integrating Tibet.
I also expect the Chinese candidate to be much more legitimate. He will be enthroned in the Potala Palace, accompanied by the Panchen Lama - with all the ceremonies, traditions, clothing, and authentic artifacts of the Dalai Lama. Meanwhile the Indian candidate will be an Indian citizen who has never set foot in non-Indian Tibet. He may also have some Indian habits that appear strange to Tibetans.
India's reputation has also declined. Tibetans use the Internet like everybody else. Like other East Asians today, they may feel somewhat superior to India or believe that India is dirty. This may diminish the credibility of the Indian candidate.
The one factor which I fear, and which has been completely ignored, is the possibility of a defection. In fact, this has already happened once, with the Karmapa Lama. This is a very understated and dangerous possibility. However, I think this is unlikely. The Panchen Lama has not defected. Additionally, life and human rights in Tibet have substantially improved from say the ‘80s or ‘90s. Thus I believe that a Tibetan spiritual figure would find China credible and remain patriotic.
Not sure if Epstein actually offered what His Holiness fancies. Probably too old and too feminine for his liking.
There's no way this will come to anything. Develop critical minerals takes a ton of long term planning but only Japan has any ability in that arena. And the rest would happily sabotage one another. It'll be 20 years before they build the first magnet.
I've visited Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture few years ago in Western Sichuan near Tibet border. I swear I was in Disneyland, with infrastructure and buildings like Tibetan Disneyland (very good way), or the infrastructure is world class for a remote rural area!! China doesn't mess around.
The amount of money China has invested in Tibetan areas, it is mind blowing. There will be no defection, definitely not. Dharmasla is like a dirty swamp in comparison. Ignore the Western whining, I care most about the official position of Indian government. Without India and Russia support, there is no independent Tibet. Everyone else including US, safely ignored their useless whining and propaganda.
Just select an Indian baby for next Dalai Lama.
It actually wasn’t worth that much engineering wise. Jaguar and Land Rover were packaged together, and due to the increased popularity of SUVs, Land Rover was the far more valuable property. By the time of Tata's purchase (2008), most of Jaguar's cars were due for an update. The X-Type was riding on an ancient Ford Mondeo/Contour platform from the early 90's (soon discontinued after the acquisition). The S-Type (later reworked into the XF) was 10 years old (DEW98 Platform shared with Lincoln), only the XK/XJ was new, but as a flagship car using all-aluminum construction, it was far too expensive to trickle down to mainstream levels, let alone early 2000's Indian industrial levels. Plus Ford kept all the patents related to the engineering.
The Land Rover portion is still doing well and very profitable, so it has not been totally mismanaged as a whole entity. I do think the future is a bit murky with their ambiguous "House of Brands" strategy (like what does that even mean?) and touting the transition to EVs without having an EV platform.