Merkel to meet Dalai Lama despite Chinese protest
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to hold a historic meeting with the Dalai Lama on Sunday despite strong protest from China, which has cancelled talks with German officials.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province Tuesday, to continue his three-day working visit to China.
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Russia will allow Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit a southern Buddhist Russian region for the first time, the foreign ministry said in a move certain to anger China.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the Dalai Lama for a meeting on Sunday despite opposition from China.
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The Dalai Lama arrives in southern Russia for a controversial trip to the region's Buddhist community.
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New rules come into force giving China more say over how Tibetan monks select their leader, the Dalai Lama.
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The Foreign Ministry has decided to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, reversing course after refusing earlier requests amid China's objections to allowing the spiritual leader to visit Russia, a spokesman said Friday.
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The Dalai Lama warned nations on  Tuesday not to try to contain China&#39;s economic and military  emergence, but urged countries like Australia to use their  trading clout to pressure Beijing on human rights.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to hold a historic meeting with the Dalai Lama on Sunday that has raised tensions with China and led Beijing to cancel at least one official event.
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The Russian government has allowed the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit the country despite longstanding opposition from China.
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President Bush said this morning that he does not expect his open embrace of the Dalai Lama to imperil relations between the United States and China, despite strong protests from Chinese leaders against the honors being bestowed upon the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader.
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China on Tuesday said that a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Dalai Lama had damaged ties between the two nations, and called for Berlin to quickly fix the problem.
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Hundreds of Buddhists in southern Russia marched through snow to see and hear the Dalai Lama as he continued a long-awaited visit to the country in spite of Chinese protests.
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Talking to the Dalai Lama offers  China&#39;s best chance for a peaceful solution in Tibet, U.S.  lawmakers and activists said on Tuesday, arguing that Beijing&#39;s  refusal to meet the exiled leader hurt China.
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Russia says it is granting a visa to the Tibetan exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, despite pressure from China.
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The foreign ministers of China and Germany said Tuesday that ties between their countries had normalised after months of stony silence over Berlin receiving the Dalai Lama.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard met the Dalai Lama on Friday in defiance of warnings from China that relations between the two countries could be damaged.