Yeah, it’s like that too.

I was curious why the Chinese would say this about people from their own government so I looked up CTA in Wikipedia and found this:

The Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan: བོདབུས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས།་, Wylie: Bod mi’i sgrig 'dzugs, THL: Bömi Drikdzuk, IPA: [pʰỳ.mìː ʈìʔ.tsùʔ], lit. ‘Tibetan People’s Exile Organization’)[1] is the government-in-exile of Tibet, based in Dharamshala, India.[2] It comprises a judiciary branch, a legislative branch, and an executive branch, and offers support and services to the Tibetan exile community.

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In October 1998, The Dalai Lama’s administration stated that it had received US$1.7 million a year during the 1960s from the Central Intelligence Agency.[15]

In 2002, the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 was passed in the U.S.[16][17] In 2016, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a grant of US$23 million to CTA.[18]

So this is like a Donbas gov’t strucure living outside of Ukraine, funded by Russia, going around the world to represent Donbas. I can see how the Ukranian embassy might have a problem with them talking to Dutch gov’t officials.

Of course I saw this - hence my question. Personally I doubt there’s been a drastic enough change over ten years to overcome such strong opinion. Why would I be asking that if I did not see the date?

Is he lying or have the numbers drastically changed?