[woofie]

from here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315004575073133355132918.html

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Beijing always has objected to meetings between foreign leaders and the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama began visiting Washington, D.C., in 1991. In late 2007, George W. Bush presented the Dalai Lama with the Congressional Gold Medal in the first public appearance of a U.S. president with the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Since then, and after riots swept through Tibetan areas of China in early 2008, China has stepped up its opposition to the Dalai Lama’s international outreach.

“China has had a huge run of success in this strategy of using the Dalai Lama as a sort of casus belli,” said Robert Barnett, director of the modern Tibetan studies center at Columbia University. The result has been a sharp reduction in the number of meetings between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders: two last year, compared with an average of four per year during the previous four years.

[Gene Eric]

Thanks woofie.

Any guest worthy of attending the WH does not deserve the backdoor, dumpster treatment. Shameful, and an embarrassment to the U.S.