China Says Relationship with Washington “Seriously Undermined” Following Meeting Between President Barack Obama and Dalai Lama

China has said their relationship with Washington has been “seriously undermined” after U.S. President Barack Obama met with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Thursday.

While the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet he was forced into exile in 1959 following a failed uprising against China. The Chinese government has considered the Dalai Lama a separatist and has urged foreign leaders to avoid meetings with him.

The White House insisted the meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama was a private matter and not political yet in a ministry statement China noted “The behavior of the US side seriously interferes in China's internal politics and seriously hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu was more direct in his criticism, stating Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama “violated the US government's repeated acceptance that Tibet is a part of China and it does not support Tibetan independence.”

Timing of the meeting certainly didn’t help matters as the U.S and China have been at odds on a number of issues including the U.S. sale of arms to Taiwan and allegations that China was involved in a cyber attack on the search giant Google. The U.S. also expressed frustration with China’s efforts at December’s Copenhagen Summit in which a global climate accord failed to materialize.

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