{"id":31710,"date":"2024-06-18T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/nancy-pelosi-meets-with-dalai-lama-despite-chinas-criticism\/18\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:20:26","slug":"nancy-pelosi-meets-with-dalai-lama-despite-chinas-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/nancy-pelosi-meets-with-dalai-lama-despite-chinas-criticism\/18\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Meets With Dalai Lama, Despite China\u2019s Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A high-level U.S. congressional delegation, including the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, met with the Dalai Lama at his Indian home on Wednesday, a visit that was condemned in advance by China\u2019s government, which considers the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The delegation, led by Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, arrived on Tuesday in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama has lived since the 1960s. The delegation visited the offices of the Tibetan government in exile, which is pushing for autonomy for Tibet within China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The trip comes days after Congress passed a bill with bipartisan support that urged China to start dialogue with Tibetan leaders to find a solution to the longstanding conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China\u2019s criticism of the visit was immediate and unsurprising. Its leaders consider the government in exile illegal and regard any support for the cause of autonomy for Tibet, which they call Xizang, as interference in internal Chinese matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe urge the U.S. side to fully recognize the anti-China separatist nature of the Dalai group, honor the commitments the U.S. has made to China on issues related to Xizang, stop sending the wrong signal to the world,\u201d the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi said in a statement on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S. officials have often met with the Dalai Lama, 88. Ms. Pelosi\u2019s presence in the delegation, however, brought reminders of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/02\/us\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-beijing.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">her 2022 trip to Taiwan<\/a>, the self-governing island that China claims as its territory, when she was still speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That contentious visit, which raised fears within the Biden administration of further deteriorating an already frosty relationship with Beijing, led to a sharp response from China, including trade restrictions on Taiwan and military exercises near the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The visit to India also comes as Washington and New Delhi deepen their relationship, motivated in part by the perception of a shared Chinese threat. Jake Sullivan, President Biden\u2019s national security adviser, is in New Delhi this week, holding multiple rounds of talks with Indian officials on expanding defense and technology cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those extensive discussions, coming weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a third term in office, indicate how much Washington prioritizes the relationship with India, with American officials increasingly speaking of New Delhi as a counterweight to Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tenzin Lekshay, a spokesman for the Central Tibetan Administration, the government in exile, said that Tibet\u2019s situation should not be seen through \u201cthe lens of increasing rivalry between the U.S. and China,\u201d but as a reminder of how the Tibetan way of life \u201cis facing an existential threat\u201d as China assimilates the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe do hope that leaders of the free world will stand for the Tibet cause, particularly stressing the Chinese leadership to reinstall the dialogue to resolve the Sino-Tibet conflict,\u201d Mr. Lekshay said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/18\/world\/asia\/pelosi-dalai-lama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level U.S. congressional delegation, including the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, met with the Dalai Lama at his Indian home on<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/nancy-pelosi-meets-with-dalai-lama-despite-chinas-criticism\/18\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}