Pelosi and other U.S. lawmakers meet with Dalai Lama, a move likely to anger China
A group of U.S. lawmakers met with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday, in a move likely to irritate China.
A group of U.S. lawmakers met with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday, a move likely to anger China.
The visit came as President Joe Biden appears poised to sign a bill pressuring Beijing to resolve tensions with Tibet and protect the region’s native Buddhist culture.
The bipartisan delegation of seven lawmakers, which was led by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and also included former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrived Tuesday in Dharamshala, a Himalayan town in northern India where the Dalai Lama, 88, has lived in exile since fleeing China in 1959 after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.
“It is still my hope that one day the Dalai Lama and his people will return to Tibet in peace,” McCaul said after the meeting, according to Reuters.
McCaul said Tuesday that Biden would soon sign a bill passed by Congress last week that presses Beijing to resume negotiations with the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan leaders that have been frozen since 2010, and to address Tibetan people’s concerns about their cultural, religious and linguistic autonomy.
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