{"id":70546,"date":"2014-02-21T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=70546"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T12:10:49","slug":"china-calls-on-u-s-to-scrap-meeting-between-obama-and-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=70546","title":{"rendered":"China calls on U.S. to scrap meeting between Obama and Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to call off a meeting at the White House with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama that&#8217;s scheduled to take place Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By arranging a meeting between the President and the Dalai Lama, the U.S. side will grossly interfere in the internal affairs of China, seriously violate norms governing international relations and severely impair China-U.S. relations,&#8221; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Thursday announced the planned meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile.<\/p>\n<p>Obama has met with the Dalai Lama twice before, in February 2010 and July 2011. China responded to those meetings with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/07\/16\/dalai.lama.white.house\/\">similarly angry comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of being a separatist who foments unrest in Tibet, a region it claims has been part of China since &#8220;ancient times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration says it supports the Dalai Lama&#8217;s &#8220;Middle Way&#8221; approach to the political tensions over protests for Tibetan independence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States recognizes Tibet to be a part of the People&#8217;s Republic of China and we do not support Tibetan independence,&#8221; said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden. &#8220;The United States strongly supports human rights and religious freedom in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to call off a meeting at the White&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}