Tibet

Lobsang Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School, was elected by 55 per cent of the Tibetan voters around the world as the next prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile to take over political leadership from the Dalai Lama. As a government-in-exile spokesman called the election "a wake-up call for China", the Chinese Government merely woke up and dismissed it as "an illegal political organisation set up overseas by the Dalai Lama to engage in Tibet independence activities."