{"id":72764,"date":"2025-07-06T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/06\/dalai-lama-celebrates-his-90th-birthday-triggering-geopolitical-questions-for-the-future"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:41:13","slug":"dalai-lama-celebrates-his-90th-birthday-triggering-geopolitical-questions-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72764","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing\u2019s control over Tibet<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from India, the United States and Taiwan offered their support to Tibet\u2019s exiled spiritual leader, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/dalailama\">Dalai Lama<\/a>, on his 90th birthday on Sunday, a landmark anniversary raising geopolitical questions for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing\u2019s control over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tibet\">Tibet<\/a>, the territory it poured troops into in 1950 and has ruled ever since.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/06\/dalai-lama-celebrates-his-90th-birthday-triggering-geopolitical-questions-for-the-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tibetans fear China will eventually name a rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing\u2019s control over TibetLeaders from India, the United States and Taiwan offered their support to Tibet\u2019s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on his 90th &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1447,62,74,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-dalai-lama","category-india","category-taiwan","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764\/revisions\/72765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}