NEW DELHI: While the US and India avoided a stumble on human rights issues on Wednesday, visiting secretary of state Antony Blinken sent a strong message to China by meeting representative of the Dalai Lama and separately meeting an official in the Tibetan government in exile. The signal came even as Blinken said diversity fuels US and India’s national strength and Indian democracy is powered by its free thinking citizens after a meeting with his counterpart S Jaishankar . At a roundtable with civil society, Blinken said both India and the US democracies were works in progress and that successful…