Washington, June 16: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday met the Dalai Lama privately on the White House, a session that sparked anger amongst Chinese language officers who accuse the Tibetan religious chief of sponsoring a separatist motion.

It was Obama‘s fourth assembly with the Dalai Lama, CNN reported.

Obama and the Dalai Lama met within the Map Room, on the bottom ground of the White Home residence.

Obama and former presidents have averted receiving the Dalai Lama within the Oval Office, a setting usually reserved for visiting heads of state or authorities leaders.

Josh Earnest, the White House Press Secretary, mentioned the assembly’s venue indicated that it was a private greeting relatively than formal bilateral talks.

A White House official stated that forward of the talks, the pair mentioned a spread of points, together with human rights, however declined to supply any additional particulars concerning the assembly, which was not open to the media.

Later, the White House stated the Dalai Lama prolonged condolences for Sunday’s terror assault in Orlando, however declined to supply additional particulars of the dialogue.

The Dalai Lama formally retired in 2011 from his political position because the chief of the exiled Tibetan authorities, however stays the top of Tibetan Buddhists.

On Tuesday, a Chinese language international ministry spokesman sharply criticised any determination that might lend legitimacy to the Dalai Lama’s claims that Tibet ought to be impartial from China.

“The US authorities made solemn commitments. It acknowledges that there’s just one China, that Tibet is an inseparable a part of China and can by no means recognise the so-called Tibetan authorities in exile,” the spokesman, Lu Kang, mentioned throughout a press briefing.

Lu mentioned the Dalai Lama shouldn’t be a purely non secular determine, however a political exile who has lengthy engaged in anti-China separatist actions below the guise of faith.

Chinese language state-run day by day, the World Instances stated the assembly confirmed Obama’s “imply facet”.

“Whereas Obama typically says he welcomes China’s peaceable rise, his conferences with the Dalai Lama erode his sincerity and make him look extra like he’s serving to the latter proceed to make hassle with China,” the day by day stated in an editorial.

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