India, China cannot defeat each other: Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said India and China cannot defeat each other and both the countries will have to live together as neighbours.

The spirit of "Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai" is the only way forward, he stressed.

"In the current border situation, neither India nor China can defeat the other. Both countries are militarily powerful," the Dalai Lama said.

Both the countries will have to live together as neighbours, he said.

"There may be some incidents



of cross-border firing. It does not matter," he said.

The Dalai Lama was responding to questions by reporters at an event here. 

He said, "In 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between the Local Government of Tibet and People's Republic of China for peaceful liberation of Tibet. Today China is changing and has become a country with the highest Buddhist population. They (India and China) should go back to 'Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai' again."

It is a Communist government but Buddhism is widely accepted, he said.