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Does China's Next Leader Have a Soft Spot for Tibet

Few people know what Xi, whose ascent to the leadership is likely to be approved at a Communist Party congress later this year, thinks of Tibet or the Dalai Lama. But his late father, Xi Zhongxun, a liberal-minded former vice premier, had a close bond with the Tibetan leader who once gave the elder Xi an expensive watch in the 1950s, a gift that the senior party official was still wearing decades later.

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Topics: 
Politics, Religion
Keywords: 
Tibet, Dalai Lama, Xi Jinping