{"id":334159,"date":"2010-02-18T06:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2010-02-18T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:25:04","slug":"qa-%e2%80%93-does-dalai-lama-meeting-help-or-hurt-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334159","title":{"rendered":"Q+A \u2013 Does Dalai Lama meeting help or hurt Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12004\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 283px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004\" title=\"dalai\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/dalai-273x350-custom.jpg\" alt=\"dalai\" width=\"273\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalai Lama in a 11 Nov 2009 file photo in India\/Adnan Abidi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>U.S. President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama on Thursday after avoiding a get-together before his China trip last year. The White House visit by the Tibetan Buddhist leader comes at a time of increased tension between the United States and China, which has warned that the session will hurt Sino-U.S. ties.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990 every U.S. president has met the Dalai Lama at the White House. President George H.W. Bush started the tradition after the Chinese authorities crushed student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and an uprising in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a meeting Obama could do without? Will it help him burnish his human rights credentials? Examine these and other questions about the visit in <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-46263320100218?sp=true\">this question-and-answer piece<\/a> from our Washington bureau.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalai Lama in a 11 Nov 2009 file photo in India\/Adnan Abidi U.S. President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama on Thursday after avoiding a get-together before his China trip last year. The White House visit by the Tibetan Buddhist leader comes at a time of increased tension between the United States and China, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}