Despite of strong objections from Chinese government the US president George W Bush has met the Dalai Lama, the 72-year-old Tibetian spritual leader in the white house. It was the third time in six years that the fourteenth Dalai Lama who was awarded the Nobel peace prize has met the US president Bush.
On Wednesday, Mr Bush will attend a ceremony at the US Capitol where the Dalai Lama will receive a Congressional Gold Medal, the top US civilian award. A Chinese spokesman has urged the US “to correct the mistakes and to cancel the arrangements”… The BBC reports that China is jumping up and down shaking its fist about George Bush talking with the Dalai Lhama.
…The Dalai Lama insists he wants “real autonomy”, not independence for the region, which China claims has been its territory for centuries, and which it has ruled since communist forces invaded in 1951. He also adds that he has professed his enormous friendship with U.S. President Bush.
It is annoying the Bush haters that how can the Dalai Lama who is a Nobel peace prize winner and also universally recognised man of peace, like that "war mongering" George Bush?