{
  "id": 16035246,
  "title": "Dalai Lama appointed by China 'is going to be a fake one', exiled former Tibetan leader says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/dalai-lama-appointed-by-china-is-going-to-be-a-fake-one-exiled-former",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T10:22:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20261022-dalai-lama-appointed-by-china-is-going-to-be-a-fake-one-exiled-former-tibetan-leader-says"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In an interview with FRANCE 24, exiled former Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay said any successor to the Dalai Lama appointed by China \"is going to be a fake one\". He also likened Beijing's ethnic unity law to \"an ethnic erasure\", said Tibetan concerns had been \"downgraded a bit\" in US-China talks and accused China of failing to warn of the deadly August floods on the Nepal-Tibet border.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}