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More than thirty years ago (in 1936) I publicly pleaded with the Tibetan Government to renounce their land's total aloofness and to replace it by a discreetly limited aloofness, to prepare for an ineluctable exchange with the outside world. The plea went unheeded. But today (1967) their country is held captive and modernizing changes are being cruelly and ruthlessly enforced. Fifty thousand refugees exist dismally in India, a thousand more live here in Switzerland. [According to the Tibetan government-in-exile, as of 2022, there were 135,432 refuges, 71,688 of them living in India.--Ed.]

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 188