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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (right) offers her support for the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet at a public reception at the Namgayal complex in Dharamsala, India.

Pelosi denounced China for its recent crackdown in Tibet, calling the crisis 'a challenge to the conscience of the world.'

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