Anger over Dalai Lama meeting
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July 18, 2011, Monday
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China yesterday condemned United States President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama and demanded immediate measures to wipe out its destructive impact.
"Such an act has grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, hurt the feelings of Chinese people and damaged Sino-American relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement released yesterday, just hours after the meeting at the White House.
"We demand the US side seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact, stop interfering in China's internal affairs and cease to connive and support anti-China separatist forces that seek 'Tibet independence,'" Ma urged in the statement.
Ma said the issue regarding Tibet concerns China's internal affairs. The Dalai Lama is in nature a political exile who has been engaged in secessionist activities in the name of religion, he said.
"China objects firmly to any foreign leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama in any form and opposes any country, or anyone, interfering in China's internal affairs by using the Dalai Lama," he said.
Allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the US and meet the president had grossly violated the norms governing international relations and gone against the repeated commitments made by the US government, Ma said, noting that fostering sound and developing China-US relations needed concerted efforts from both sides.
Despite strong objections from China, Obama met the Dalai Lama on Saturday. Ma said China's Foreign Ministry and the Chinese embassy in the US had lodged solemn representations to the US side in Beijing and Washington DC.
"Such an act has grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, hurt the feelings of Chinese people and damaged Sino-American relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement released yesterday, just hours after the meeting at the White House.
"We demand the US side seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact, stop interfering in China's internal affairs and cease to connive and support anti-China separatist forces that seek 'Tibet independence,'" Ma urged in the statement.
Ma said the issue regarding Tibet concerns China's internal affairs. The Dalai Lama is in nature a political exile who has been engaged in secessionist activities in the name of religion, he said.
"China objects firmly to any foreign leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama in any form and opposes any country, or anyone, interfering in China's internal affairs by using the Dalai Lama," he said.
Allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the US and meet the president had grossly violated the norms governing international relations and gone against the repeated commitments made by the US government, Ma said, noting that fostering sound and developing China-US relations needed concerted efforts from both sides.
Despite strong objections from China, Obama met the Dalai Lama on Saturday. Ma said China's Foreign Ministry and the Chinese embassy in the US had lodged solemn representations to the US side in Beijing and Washington DC.
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