{"id":10274,"date":"2011-09-11T05:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T05:09:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-11T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T05:09:15","slug":"China-condemns-Mexican-prez-meeting-with-Dalai-Lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10274","title":{"rendered":"China condemns Mexican prez meeting with Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Chinese government on Saturday strongly condemned a meeting between Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n and Tibet&#8217;s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it damaged relations between both countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the Mexican side arranged Calder\u00f3n&#8217;s meeting with the Dalai Lama on Friday, despite strong objections from China.<\/strong> Following the meeting, China &#8220;lodged solemn representations&#8221; with Mexican officials in Beijing and Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a gross interference in China&#8217;s internal affairs, hurts the feelings of the Chinese people, and undermines China-Mexico relations,&#8221; Jiang said. &#8220;China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jiang said Calder\u00f3n went against the &#8216;commitments of the Mexican side&#8217; and urged the Mexican government to take concrete actions to eliminate the negative impact of the issue. She added that the Tibet issue concerns China&#8217;s core interests and accused the Dalai Lama of carrying out secessionist activities under the banner of religion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China continues to claim Tibet as a region of their territory, though Tibetans have disagreed for many years. <\/strong>In mid-July, the Chinese Foreign Ministry also strongly condemned a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>That meeting was quietly announced on a late Friday evening in Obama&#8217;s daily schedule in an attempt to keep it low profile, but it did not slip past China&#8217;s attention. The meeting also took place behind closed doors with no press allowed to attend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source www.bnonews.com<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government on Saturday strongly condemned a meeting between Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n and Tibet&#8217;s exiled spiritual leader the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The Chinese government on Saturday strongly condemned a meeting between Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n and Tibet&#8217;s exiled spiritual leader the","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":140,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"njaiyo","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=6"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}