"Obama...Don't Meet With Dalai Lama"

As we know, China holds about $1 trillion of our U.S. Treasury Bonds.  As we also know the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, and Tibet has been "occupied" by China for some decades now.

So when Obama made plans to meet the Lama...China wasn't happy.

The Chinese government on Saturday called on the United States to cancel a planned meeting between President Barack Obama and the Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama, warning that it would “damage” relations between both countries.


“The issue regarding Tibet concerns China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and we firmly oppose any foreign official to meet with the Dalai Lama in any form,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said in a statement.


He called on the U.S. government “to immediately withdraw the decision” of arranging the meeting and “to avoid interfering in China’s internal affairs and damaging China-U.S. relations.”


See it here;  http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2233235.ece

Of course if we didn't owe China all that money, and if we weren't on the edge of a financial abyss (which China could push us over) then Obama could meet with the Lama and we could thumb our noses at China and tell them we will talk to anyone we want to.

"The borrower will be slave to the lender."  Proverbs