The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, said on Wednesday that upon his death he would be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader and that only the Gaden Phodrang Trust would be able to identify his successor. He previously said the person will be born outside China.

China has expressed its desire for India to refrain from using Tibetan issues as a means of interfering in its internal matters, aiming to prevent any adverse impact on the progress of their bilateral relations.