China: Obama, Dalai meeting is ‘meddling’
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China yesterday accused the United States of meddling in its domestic affairs after President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House, and said it is up to Washington to take steps to avoid further damaging ties.
“The US seriously interfered in China’s internal affairs by allowing the Dalai’s visit to the United States and arranging the meetings with US leaders,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement.
“We urge the US to take China’s concerns seriously, stop tolerance and support of anti-China separatist forces, cease interfering in China’s internal affairs and immediately take measures to eliminate its baneful influence to avoid further impairment to China-US relations.”
China warned on Friday that a meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama would damage relations between Washington and Beijing, and urged the US to cancel it.
The meeting went ahead, however.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui late Friday in Beijing summoned the charge d’affaires at the US embassy to protest about the meeting, the ministry said in a separate statement.
“China expressed strong indignation and firm opposition” to the “erroneous acts” of the US in interfering in China’s internal issues, the ministry quoted Zhang as saying.
“Tibetan issues fall purely into the domestic affairs of China,” Zhang said. “The US has no right to interfere.”
The meeting with the Dalai Lama “will seriously sabotage China-US relations and surely impair the interests of the US itself,” he said.
“The US must take concrete actions to win the trust of the Chinese government and its people,” Zhang added.
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