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Since the mid-1970s, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan leadership have been seeking a solution for a future Tibet that is within the framework of the People’s Republic of China. It is for this reason that he could respond immediately and positively to the overture of then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 who said that other than the independence of Tibet anything else could be discussed and resolved. United Front leader Ding Guangen repeated, in 1992, this assurance by Deng Xiaoping as was done subsequently by a Chinese official spokesperson in 1993. On August 25, 1993, Xinhua quoted a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying, “The affairs of Tibet are an internal business of China’s and the door of negotiations between the central government and the Dalai Lama remains widely open. Except independence of Tibet, all other questions can be negotiated.”
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