I wonder, what do individuals with bumper stickers "Free Tibet" and "Hope and Change" on the same car feel these days? (ch)
Obama snubbed Dalai Lama to appease China: Telegraph BarackObama somehow couldn’t carve out any time in his busy — nay, Olympian —schedule to meet with the Dalai Lama, despite almost two decades ofprecedents for presidential tetes-a-tetes with the Tibetan leader-in-exile. The Telegraph reports that the decision is no scheduling accident, but a deliberate snub predicated on diplomatic pressure from China:
It means Mr Obama will become the first president not towelcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the DalaiLama began visiting Washington in 1991.