President Barack Obama met the Dali Lama, and China seem to be very angry about that. The long standing political debate over the relationship between China and Tibet, where the Dali Lama is the president-in-exile, and the apparent dominance China has over the country and the Buddhist religion would have escaped the notice of few in the world, but for a man who advocates peace, leads a religion and has no military might, the Chinese government do appear to be acting like a child who dislikes the game because they are not winning.
The U.S.A. have made it clear that this is not private rather than a political events, though how are we to know what took place behind closed doors. The reaction to the meeting though has raised the question, how long will China continue to hold this somewhat strange stance again the Lama and Tibet itself? Relations between the United States and China have been more publicized of late due to the recent Google row in which China was accused of instigating cyber attacks against the well known search engine but their response to the meeting between these two political figures seems as important as condemning a murderer for stealing a chocolate bar.
