New Tibetan exile leader vows to take on Chinese 'colonialism'

Lobsang Sangay, sworn in as the Tibetan prime minister in exile, assumes political duties ceded by the Dalai Lama. The Harvard-educated leader has taken a more confrontational approach toward Beijing


Speaking at the Tsuglagkhang Temple in Dharamsala, a hill station in northern India, Sangay vowed to fight Beijing's "colonialism," and said his election sent "a clear message to the hard-liners in the Chinese government that Tibetan leadership is far from fizzling out."

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