Dalai Lama says prefers to stay in India since Taiwan-China relations ‘delicate’

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FILE PHOTO: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama attends a press meeting in Malmo, Sweden September 12, 2018. TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS

TOKYO — The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, when asked on Wednesday in an online news conference about visiting Taiwan, said he prefers to stay in India since relations between Taiwan and mainland China are “quite delicate.”

He also said he has no particular plans to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping.