– President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China's warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
Digging in on two points of discord with the United States, China vowed to impose unspecified sanctions against U.S. firms selling arms to Taiwan and said any meeting between Obama and the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader would hurt bilateral ties.
The White House shrugged off Beijing's warning.
"The president told China's leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama and he intends to do so," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters.
"We expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work on areas of mutual concern such as climate, the global economy and non-proliferation and discuss frankly and candidly those areas where we disagree," he told reporters traveling with Obama to New Hampshire.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Obama to meet Dalai Lama despite China
The fact we are even having this conversation about China demanding a sitting President not to meet with the Dalai Lama ticks me off. What do they think of Obama to even come out with such a statement.
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ReplyDeleteOpen Letter to Dalai Lama: - Reverently bowing before the Blessed Buddhas, their Sons, Baby Buddhas, the Body of the Buddha Law, and all the worshipful Buddhas, Arhats and Bodhisattvas, I will briefly set forth in accordance with Buddha Dharma-Vinaya, the Aryas Path whereby the sons of the Buddhas enter Nirvana: by way of protecting the Buddha, the Buddha Dharma-Vinaya, the Buddha Sangha. The Gelugpas will be saved at all costs.
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