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TOKYO, Japan - The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (C), attends a memorial at Gokokuji temple in Tokyo on April 29, 2011, for the victims of the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan.
The Dalai Lama is coming to America. Will Biden meet him?
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso arrives in the United States on June 20 for surgery – his first trip outside India since 2018. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists is reportedly having a procedure on his knees, but his visit compounds the delicate choices now facing the White House.
Joe Biden made a campaign promise to meet with the Dalai Lama, and with just months remaining in his first term, this might be the only good chance he gets. That said, the president is in the midst of a delicate stabilization process with China, which conquered Tibet in 1950 and forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India in 1959. Beijing has long considered the Dalai Lama a threat to the regime and has attempted to punish countries that give him an audience.
“A meeting between Biden and his Holiness, under any circumstance, would be seen as violating a diplomatic taboo by Beijing,” says Dominic Chiu, senior analyst at Eurasia Group.
“The current communication channels and working groups established between Beijing and Washington to manage bilateral relations would be completely ineffective in managing such a scenario.”
Biden, in other words, might be wise to give the Dalai Lama a wide berth.
Dalai Lama discharged from hospital after chest infection, doing 'very well now': Spokesman
NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Dalai Lama was discharged from a New Delhi hospital on Friday (April 12), his personal spokesman said, three days after being admitted with what an aide called a "light cough".
Dalai Lama 'doing much better', should leave hospital in few days: Spokesman
NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi for treatment but is "doing much better" and should be released soon, his close aide told AFP on Wednesday (April 10).
Dalai Lama, 83, hospitalised with chest infection
MUMBAI (REUTERS) - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday (April 9) with chest infection, an aide said, adding that the 83-year-old Buddhist monk was stable.