China's Shifting Strategy on the Dalai Lama

Beijing is subtly changing its strategy on dealing with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan unrest. It no longer is portraying the Dalai Lama as the key instigator of the violence, and it is making simultaneous support for him and condemnation of Tibetan “terrorism” an option. This is an effort to pre-empt an expected rise in international pressure on the Chinese government ahead of the Dalai Lama’s meetings with world leaders in the weeks to come.