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China responded angrily yesterday to President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai
Lama and demanded steps to undo the damage.
The language used by Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, stopped short of
retaliatory action, reflecting Beijing’s desire to limit the impact while
serious issues such as US arms sales to Taiwan remain on the table.
Mr Ma said the meeting with the Tibetan god-king, who has lived in exile in
India since an abortive uprising against Beijing in 1951, “hurt the national
feelings of the Chinese people and seriously undermined China-US relations”.
He demanded that the US “adopt measures to wipe out the baneful impact and
stop conniving and supporting anti-China separatist forces that seek Tibet
independence”.
China’s response will have been decided to some extent by Mr Obama’s low-key
welcome to the Dalai Lama.
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama
and the Dalai Lama discussed the need to promote peace,
humanitarian values and religious harmony, the exiled Tibetan
spiritual leader said on Thursday.
Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama at White House prompted
a warning from China that Sino-U.S. ties could be damaged.
The talks were closed to the press but afterward, the Dalai
Lama told reporters he had expressed to Obama his admiration
for the United States as a "champion of democracy, freedom,
human values" and creativity.
US President Barack Obama has ended his more than hourlong meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said afterwards, "I am very happy."
The Dalai Lama told reporters on the White House driveway Thursday that he spoke to Obama about the promotion of human values, religious harmony and the concerns of the Tibetan people. He said Obama was "supportive." (AP)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans a muted meeting with the Dalai Lama on Thursday in deference to Chinese anger that he is welcoming the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader into the White House at all.
Chinese officials will be watching closely to see how great a stage Obama offers to his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The Chinese want to know: How long will the meeting last? Will the first lady attend? Will the White House put out a written statement or answer questions about the visit at daily press briefings? Will cameras be allowed to film any part of the encounter?
China's feelings matter because the Obama administration needs Beijing's help to confront nuclear standoffs in Iran and North Korea, to fight climate change and to boost the world's economy.
With China in mind, the White House appears to be opting for a low-key meeting. There is unlikely to be a joint public appearance or photo opportunity before reporters.
The current Administration's lack of diplomacy in the conduct of America's foreign policy combined with its deliberate, extraordinary and record debt has placed the national security in grave danger. Example: While the previous Bush Administration seemed to get away with meeting with the Dalai Lama and fortifying Taiwan, this White House is in deep trouble with China over the two issues. The Bush Administration operated from the position of strength and isolated trade and business with China from the more delicate political matters. Yes, China always put up a diplomatic fuss when the Bush Administration supported the Dalai Lama or Taiwan, but now there are threats from the Chinese military.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
The calls for broad retaliation over the planned U.S. weapons sales to the disputed island came from officers at China's National Defence University and Academy of Military Sciences, interviewed by Outlook Weekly, a Chinese-language magazine published by the official Xinhua news agency.
The warnings from the PLA come after weeks of strains between Washington and Beijing, who have also been at odds over Internet controls and hacking, trade and currency quarrels, and President Barack Obama's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader reviled by China as a "separatist."
China is likely to unveil its official military budget for 2010 next month, when the Communist Party-controlled national parliament meets for its annual session.
Long-simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington over the value of
China’s currency have spilled over into angry words at the highest level,
further damaging ties hit by a series of disputes in the few brief weeks
since the start of the year.
The chill in one of the world’s most important diplomatic relationships is
almost certain to deepen in the next few months as the world’s largest and
third-largest economies tackle an array of contentious issues, ranging from
cyber attacks to the Dalai Lama.
China responded swiftly to a pledge from President Barack Obama that he would
be tougher with Beijing over the value of the yuan, which Washington
believes is artificially undervalued. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu
said: “Accusations and pressure do not help to solve the problem."
However, there is the risk of one side overplaying its hand: US approval last
month of arms sales to Taiwan, flagged months in advance, has drawn
unusually fierce angry volleys from Beijing.
"BEIJING (Reuters) - "Ride on a tiger and it's hard to climb down," goes a Chinese saying that is proving apt for Beijing's quarrels with Washington this year, when swollen ambitions at home are driving China on a harder tack abroad. China | COP15 China's outrage over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and President Barack Obama's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama has shown that, in the wake of the global financial crisis, Beijing is growing pushier in public. In past decades, a poorer, more cautious China greeted U.S. weapons sales to the disputed island with angry words and little else. Not now, as China enters the Year of the Tiger in its traditional lunar calendar cycle of talismanic animals. The Obama administration last week announced plans to ship $6.4 billion of missiles, helicopters and weapons control systems to the self-ruled island Beijing calls its own. China threatened to downgrade cooperation with Washington and for the first time sanction companies involved in such sales. Beijing this week also condemned Obama's plan to meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader reviled by China. China's loud ire adds to signs the country is becoming surer about throwing around its political weight, growing along with an economy soon likely to whir past Japan's as the world's second biggest, though it will still trail far behind the United States. Behind this assertiveness are domestic pressures likely to make it harder work for China's leaders to cool disputes with Washington and other Western capitals. "There is this paradox of increasing confidence externally and lack of confidence domestically," said Susan Shirk, a professor specializing in Chinese foreign policy at the University of California, San Diego. "There's also what I consider a serious misperception of the country's economic strength and how that translates in power.""
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