Topic: Obama

Obama/Dalai Lama meeting cancelled (or, postponed)

November 19, 2009 – 11:08 am

This, as UPI reports, “will be the first time in nearly two decades a visit to Washington by the Dalai Lama hasn’t included a meeting with the sitting president.” We’re being told it will still happen. But when?

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Obama pours the honey on in China (Updated)

November 17, 2009 – 9:30 am

[11/18/2009 update: it should be no surprise that "Tibetan exiles [are] saddened by Obama’s views on Tibet.”]
…As indicated in our story yesterday, US President Barack Obama is in China. Let’s look at a couple of headlines:
Compare this one — Obama Urges China to Resume Tibet Talks (via the TimesOnline) — with this one:  US Says [...]

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Obama heads to China; China equates Dalai Lama to American slavemaster

November 16, 2009 – 10:47 am

Talk about audacity. But China’s latest comments about the Dalai Lama, of course, have nothing to do with hope; instead, the Chinese government is trying in vain to suggest that the Dalai Lama is essentially no better than a slavemaster of the old American South, just as President Obama arrives in the country for his [...]

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