ABSTRACT
China’s hold on Tibet is total and, at least for the present, unquestioned. But the real question for Tibetans, Indians, and, indeed, most Asians, is who will end up in power in Beijing. In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the fate of a full third of the globe’s population will be determined, or at least significantly influenced by political, economic, and military developments in the People’s Republic of China.
