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Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday opened a visit to the United States to meet President Barack Obama, infuriating China as it tries to sideline the revered monk.
Dalai Lama arrives in US
The Dalai Lama, who has tried to use foreign trips to throw a spotlight on China's treatment of his homeland, flew into Washington and headed to a hotel to greet fellow Tibetans for their Losar new year. The 74-year-old will head Thursday to the White House for a long-awaited meeting with Obama.
China asks US to reverse "wrong decision"
Beijing has opposed any meeting with the Dalai Lama, demanding that the United States reverse its "wrong decision" to "avoid any more damage to Sino-US relations." The Obama administration not only refused to call off the meeting, but announced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would also see the Dalai Lama on Thursday at the State Department. Advisers to the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since 1959, brushed aside China's criticism as routine and said the White House meeting sent a comforting message to those living in Tibet. "They will feel encouraged that the president of the United States, a global superpower, is meeting with His Holiness," the Dalai Lama's secretary Chhime Chhoekyapa said. "It means the world has not forgotten them." The Dalai Lama enjoys a wide following in the United States and every sitting US president has met with the Nobel Peace laureate since George H. W. Bush in 1991.

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