China and the Dalai Lama
"The Dalai Lama is a great and charismatic spiritual figure, but a poor and poorly advised political strategist." Patrick French - a former director of the Free Tibet Campaign - believes the country's exiles should be pursuing back-channel diplomacy with Beijing. The high-profile "Hollywood strategy" hasn't worked, he says.
[Photo: Nepalese policemen arrest a Tibetan monk during an anti-Chinese demonstration near the UN headquarters in Kathmandu. Photo credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images]