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XIAOJIANG HU, left, a lecturer in sociology, and LOBSANG SANGAY, a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School discuss Tibet at a panel hosted by Radio Free Asia Friday. (CRIMSON/ RAVI P. RAMCHANDANI)

Experts on Chinese-Tibetan relations told a sparse audience at the JFK Jr. Forum Friday that it is possible but unlikely that tensions between China and the region it invaded in 1949 will be resolved.

“We can never forget our gratitude to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and this is what we can do to show our support to the cause of 6 million Tibetans and His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, said Lobsang Khedrup amid intervals of pauses as he tries to stop his tears with a red cap

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has expressed regret that the Dalai Lama has not "genuinely" given up his demand for 'Tibetan independence,' a precondition for talks to resolve the long-pending Tibet issue.

Starving, freezing and bleeding, Soname Yangchen lay down in the mountains to die. Without fear the teenager embraced her fate: to freeze to death or be eaten by the wild animals of the Himalayas.

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Tibetan students staged a protest yesterday on the eve of a five-day visit to India by the head of China's nominal lower house. Jia Qinglin, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

An exchange of ideas among academic experts on issues concerning Tibet could help Taiwan to improve its position in the international community.

India has said there is no change in its policy towards the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who runs a government in exile in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. He now seeks greater autonomy for the Himalayan region.