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Dalai Lama’s visit to Washington can fuel another row between China and US
Published: 19 February, 2010, 01:13
Edited: 22 February, 2010, 10:35
United States, Washington : The Dalai Lama speaks to the media outside the White House after his meeting with US President Barack Obama on February 18, 2010 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo / Tim Sloan)
(3.6Mb) embed videoThe Dalai Lama met with US President Barack Obama in Washington, despite anger from Beijing. China had warned in advance that the meeting would affect relations with America.
Recently tensions escalated between the two countries following trade rows and a fallout over proposed US arms sales to Taiwan.
Experts say the visit of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet who is considered a separatist by Beijing, is likely to fuel another round of tit-for-tat measures.
“China is one of the leading foreign holders of US bonds. So Bejing has good leverage against Washington. It has already started selling its holdings,” Sergey Luzyanin, deputy head of the Institute of Far East Studies, told RT. “I think this trend will continue. But there are certain boundaries for China as well. I do not think it will be a mass sell-off and an attempt to orchestrate a collapse because China is tied to the dollar. But I'm sure some American companies will suffer multi-million or even multi-billon dollar losses.”
The US decision to hold the meeting with the Dalai Lama is a monumental affront to China and is a very unfriendly act, investigative journalist Webster Tarpley told RT.
“The US policy is not very easy to understand, because it seems to be very destructive with really no hope of succeeding,” Tarpley said. “It reflects this tremendous hysteria in Washington that China is overtaking the US in so many areas.”
“Look at Iran and Pakistan,” he continued. “Iran is simply the source of Chinese oil, Pakistan is the pipeline-country that will get the oil from Iran into China. We now have General Makarov, General Ivashov and Ahmadinejad himself saying they expect an attack [on Iran] by the US, possibly in tandem with Israel. This will be an attack on China’s primary oil source, similarly pn Pakistan. The Taliban now say that the main purpose of the US offensive in Helmand province is to damage Chinese economical interests.”
Any straining in the economic relations between the US and China could prove harmful to both parties, says financial commentator Jim Rogers. “Trade wars have never worked. No one has ever won a trade war.”
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To Visit You seem to forget a few details: 1) The USA are only 5% of mankind. 2) All over Europe, Russia, India, Africa etc. Chinese products are sold and customers accept them. 3) Many businessmen who give Chinese the order to produce as cheaply as possible are westerners, including many Americans and French (Sarkozy sold Airbus planes which will be build in China, too expensive to do it, in Toulouse). Boeing and Airbus are making a big part of their planes in China. 4) If the Chinese economic bulb explode, many westerner stocks' holders will cry. Consequently, a boycott of all Chinese products is not for tomorrow. This has about as much chance to become reality as my dream to see the 95% of humans being not US citizen, boycotting the sole actual "Devil's Empire" on Earth: America Sorry Future Generations; most actual decisions' makers have a cash-register, instead of brain. Best Regards... Jean-Claude Meslin
Re my previous comment,i did not mention the english,the english are probably the only peasent country left in the west,its a priveleged class structure ,the only education they get is from the elevated peasents in broadcasting and media,these servents to the ruling class,indoctrinate its subjects with garbage,and the belief,they still ruling the empire.Hence they ignorance and arrogrance ,well documented when the english go abroad
It is highly unlikely that the wonderful, freedom loving French President will openly invite the Dalai Lama to paris for consultations and a STATE VISIT. Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. Would France dare make waves and risk losing the slave labor provided to them/their industry by China. The French couldn't even defend their own country during WWII so the French may want use a little less verbasity and try to muster up a little action. The French are much shorter than Obama. SORRY, THE FRENCH GENERATION.