I meet a man in Ladakh who claims he would rather be part of China. Perhaps I pushed him to it by angrily insisting that Ladakh was part of India, and should follow Indian norms for doing business, but he justified his view. It's greed, China has developed faster and he thinks the pay would be higher. He wasn't willing to accept that as part of a minority culture, be it India, Uyghur or Tibetan, he would suffer discrimination or even repression. Ladakh is mostly Buddhist, and there is a reason the Dalai Lama lives in India.
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