China is protesting President Barack Obama’s meeting with Dalai Lama.
The meeting Thursday at the White House is another test of rocky ties between Beijing and Washington, strained in recent weeks by issues from Taiwan arms sales to cyber spying allegations.
However, the language of the protest issued by the Foreign Ministry was relatively constrained, a reflection of the White House’s low-key treatment of the meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader and Beijing’s own desire to maintain healthy China-U.S. relations.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a Web site statement that China expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition,” to the meeting.
