Obama to host Dalai Lama on Friday US President Barack Obama will host Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, a move China said would "seriously impair" ties as it called for the meeting to be canceled. The meeting will take place in the Map Room on the ground floor of the president's residence and not the Oval Office, which Obama usually uses to meet foreign leaders and visiting dignitaries. The US leader last met the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate, at the White House in 2011 in...
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