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14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, 2008.
The 14th Dalai Lama introduced the "Middle Way Approach" in 1988 during a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
This proposal serves as a compromise between the complete independence of Tibet and its total absorption into the People’s Republic of China. Under this approach, the Dalai Lama proposed that Tibet should function as an autonomous region within China. A key objective of this plan was to maintain Tibet's autonomy while allowing the region to benefit from Chinese technological and defense capabilities.1