8 Aug 2025

Asia correspondent Ed White

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 8 August 2025
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama attends a long-life prayer offering ceremony at the Main Tibetan Temple in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on July 5, 2025. The Dalai Lama said on July 5 he dreamed of living for decades more, as the Buddhist spiritual leader prayed with thousands of exiled Tibetans on the eve of his 90th birthday. (Photo by Sanjay BAID / AFP)

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama attends a long-life prayer offering ceremony at the Main Tibetan Temple in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on July 5, 2025. Photo: AFP / SANJAY BAID

Ed discusses a renewed suppression of Tibetan culture,  the latest standoff between President Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a crackdown in China on officials smoking and drinking too much.

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times based in Shanghai