US President Barack Obama welcomed Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to the White Huse on Friday, defying China, which said the meeting would “seriously impair” ties between the two countries.
The china foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement “China is firmly opposed to this” and “We urge the US side to treat China’s concern in a serious way and immediately cancel the planned meeting.”
Hua called the Dalai Lama a “political exile who has long been engaged in anti-China separatist activities under the cloak of religion.”
