[20160624]IF10421_奥巴马总统2016年6月会见西藏达赖喇嘛.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated June 24, 2016President Obamas June 2016 Meeting with Tibets Dalai LamaIntroduction President Barack Obama met with Tibets exiled spiritual leader, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, at the White House on June 15, 2016. This was the fourth and likely final White House meeting between the two men during the Obama presidency. The day before, the Dalai Lama visited Capitol Hill for meetings with Members and a lunch hosted by the House Speaker and House Minority Leader. The President and Congress are among a small number of national leaders and legislatures to meet publicly with the Dalai Lama; most of the rest of the worlds national leaders and legislatures avoid such meetings, many under pressure from the government of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The PRC opposes all meetings between foreign officials and the Dalai Lama, whom it considers to be “not a pure religious figure, but a political exile who has long been engaged in anti-China separatist plots under the cloak of religion.” After the Presidents meeting with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said U.S. “meddling with Chinas domestic affairs will inevitably inf