The Dalai Lama turned 90 last week, raising questions around the role of China in naming his successor and Tibetan independence as a whole. But what is the real history of Tibet and the institution of the Dalai Lama, beyond U.S. headlines? Professor Ken Hammond joins Amanda Yee this week to discuss old Tibet before the arrival of the People’s Liberation Army in 1950, the CIA stoking unrest in the region, and the modern-day U.S. propaganda campaign to break the region away from China.
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