Posted on 10/05/2009 12:11:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In an attempt to gain favour with China, for the first time since 1991 the US President will not meet Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama when he visits Washington this week.
President Barack Obama who is scheduled to undertake his first visit to China next month has apparently decided not to meet the Dalai Lama son as not to annoy Beijing.
"The US pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month," Washington Post reported.
The Dalai Lama has met every sitting US president since George Bush senior in 1991. China accuses the Dalai Lama of being a ‘splittist’ aiming to separate Tibet from it.
The last time Dalai Lama was here, in 2007, however, George W Bush became the first sitting President to meet with him publicly, at a ceremony at the Capitol in which he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest civilian award.
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once again the annointed one bows to his red masters... what a loser.
Hey, all you FREE TIBET O-bots....how’s that hopenchange working out for you?
I do, and would be happy to supplement Obama's education regarding the finer points of diplomacy ~ this isn't stuff you get taught at Occidental, Columbia or Harvard ~ it's real, it's hard core, much of it taught to me by the company's chief cook ~ he was Sicilian ~ knew some hand signals you would not believe!
Wow... no balls whatsoever.
The worst part is, when he dies, on his deathbed, he won’t have total consciousness. So he won’t have that going for him.
That's not a "fad" either, but it can lead to some hard times ~ like when you fall down a hill and get busted up, you are supposed to accept that as your having met the hill and the hill serving its own needs.
I wonder how that Chinese/Nepal war is going or the 22,000 dead Ceylon/Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers/ civilians is going...oh wait any updates on Chinese in Africa?? Shhhh loose lips sink made in China emigration ships
No unga gunga gulunga for him....
Most of them seem to not take it seriously. That’s why I assume it’s a fad among them.
” busted up, you are supposed to accept that as your having met the hill and the hill serving its own needs.”
Perhaps Zero could meet with us citizens and we can serve our own needs.
Where’s Richard Gere and the Hollywood crowd on this? Chirp, chirp.
Obama just became the Chicoms boy, and he doesn’t even have a clue.
Never in my adult life, have I been so embarrassed of and for my country.
Tibet is a provence of China.
President Pantywaist, again.
....and poor Obama has no balls at all !
Here is the same story as reported in the UK Daily Telegraph.
Barack Obama cancels meeting with Dalai Lama 'to keep China happy'
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