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Friday, 21 February 2014

BEIJING - The White House has announced that Barack Obama is to receive the Dalai Lama in Washington on Friday morning, which would be their third meeting since the former assumed US presidency in 2009. The move is both regrettable and harmful. It marks a flagrant breach of Washington's pledge to refrain from interfering in China's domestic affairs, and would dampen the hard-won positive impetus the two sides have built up in the...

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