Obama not to meet Dalai under Chinese pressure: Report

indianexpress.com ^ | Oct. 5, 2009

[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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[Americanwolf]

once again the annointed one bows to his red masters... what a loser.

[NativeNewYorker]

Hey, all you FREE TIBET O-bots....how’s that hopenchange working out for you?

[muawiyah]

Not only that he doesn't know how to flip the bird to the Chicoms and their running dog lackeys.

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!

[randomhero97]

Exactly. However, the cult followers will still follow him.

What's so funny about it is the fact that the "liberals" who worship zero also are into the whole Buddhist fad.

[pnh102]

Wow... no balls whatsoever.

[RichInOC]

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.

[muawiyah]

The Leftwingtards are not into a "fad" ~ they are into Zen ~ since they do it without scriptural guidance.

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.

[Karliner]

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

[jessduntno]

No unga gunga gulunga for him....

[randomhero97]

Most of them seem to not take it seriously. That’s why I assume it’s a fad among them.

[Niuhuru]

” 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.

[FromLori]

[dancusa]

Where’s Richard Gere and the Hollywood crowd on this? Chirp, chirp.

[Gator113]

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.

[spald]

I'm with the Chicom's on this Tibet issue which is just a bunch of leftist, Hollywood propaganda. China has owned Tibet for hundreds of years. I think the Dalai Lama first administered Tibet in like 1600 but it was under the rule of the Qing Dynasty of China. China owned it right up to the day right before WWI that the Dalai lama announced Tibet as an independent nation. No other nation on earth made a similar declaration of support, certainly not China.

Tibet is a provence of China.

[Truth is a Weapon]

President Pantywaist, again.

[TexasCajun]

[SparkyBass]

Big hitter, the Lama...

[protest1]

reminds me of the WWII song about Hitler et al

....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'

[cranked]

And all this time we thought Clinton was bought and paid for by the Chinese.....

[proud_yank]

Hey, all you FREE TIBET O-bots....how’s that hopenchange working out for you?

I can not figure out why those with liberal/socialist political views put those stickers on their cars. I'm guessing its because they think it looks cool, and not that they understand the hypocrisy of the statement they're making.

[Americanwolf]

I am begining to think the entire democrat party is beholden to the Chinese...

[Verginius Rufus]

Another “profile in courage” from our Kennedyesque President.