OPINION
While the bill before the US Congress on Assuring the Future of Tibet Act (AFTA) of 2026 – should it become law – will not settle the Sino-Tibetan dispute, nor enable Washington to determine Tibet’s future, what it crucially means is that a people’s political voice should not become uncertain at the very moment when the question of their future becomes most urgent, in the post-Dalai Lama scenario, and that the institutions through which Tibetans speak – under the aegis of the CTA – are not left waiting for the world to decide whom it is prepared to hear, writes Saurabh Chauhan.*
A people’s future cannot rest forever on the shoulders of one person,...





