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| Pres. Obama previously met with the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House on July 16, 2011 (Pete Souza/The White House/file). |
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| Dalai Lama in D.C. (washingtonpost.com) |
BEIJING, China - A planned meeting between Pres. Barack Obama and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama [will] "seriously damage" U.S. relations with China, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official said Friday [Feb. 21, 2014].
The White House National Security Council said Obama would meet the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, at the White House on Friday in a show of concern about China's human rights practices.
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| Getting up the Great Wall of China is like arguing with a communist dictatorship. |
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| Free Tibet! China out of Tibet! (AJ) |
China meanwhile, calls the Dalai Lama a "wolf in sheep's clothing" who seeks to use violent methods to [re-]establish an independent Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a failed uprising in 1959 [to resist a massive Chinese invasion, occupation, and takeover], maintains he only wants genuine autonomy for Tibet and denies advocating violence.
"The United States' arrangement for its leader to meet the Dalai would be a gross interference in China's internal affairs and is a serious violation of the norms of international relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. More
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