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Wide of Tibetan pro-Dalai Lama demonstrators with flags in front of White House2. Various of motorcade carrying Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama arriving at White House compoundWashington, DC - 18...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Tibetan pro-Dalai Lama demonstrators with flags in front of White House\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of motorcade carrying Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama arriving at White House compound\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Dalai Lama walking out of the White House, towards press stakeout\u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway of cameraman\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of the Dalai Lama on the driveway of the White House, surrounded by the media\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel great honour seeing the President of the greatest democratic country. Since my childhood, I''ve always admired America; not the economy or military power, but mainly as a champion of democracy, freedom, human values, human creativity, these things. So, I''m very happy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of media\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The President was very much supportive today. And I thank, you see, even before he became President, during the election, he telephoned me, then after he became President, you see, he always is showing his genuine concern and including his recent visit to Beijing, he expressed his concern about Tibet and besides other global issues like that. So, I expressed my thanks to him, so that''s the main thing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Tibetan pro-Dalai Lama demonstrators with flags gathered around Dalai Lama\u003cbr/\u003e10. Dalai Lama speaking to media\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now, I want to tell, the Chinese leadership, I think they should take on every issue more holistic view, then they get fuller knowledge about the reality. Just looking (at) any problem from one side, you can''t see the reality fully. Then your approach becomes unrealistic. So that''s why some Chinese policies to some people, look very childish.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Dalai Lama speaking to media\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pro-Dalai Lama demonstrators singing and dancing outside White House\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close of demonstrator holding photo of Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama years ago\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanzin Dolkar, Students for Tibet spokeswoman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Tibetans here are gathered today because we are here to welcome his holiness, also to show thanks to President Obama for meeting with his holiness, the Dalai Lama. And we are also here to call upon President Obama to do everything in his power to facilitate a meeting between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese President Hu Jintao.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of US State Department Spokesman PJ Crowley walking to podium\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) PJ Crowley, US State Department Spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We expect that the agenda for the meeting with the Secretary (of State Hillary Clinton) will track very similarly with the discussion between the President and the Dalai Lama. I expect that she will express our support for the preservation of Tibet''s unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity. She''ll welcome the Dalai Lama''s report on the ongoing dialogue which was recently renewed with China and I am sure will encourage the Dalai Lama in his efforts to his commitment to non-violence and pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, NY - 18 February 2010\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Times Square, pan to news ticker\u003cbr/\u003e19. People walking in Times Square\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Allison Smith, Voxpop\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that we can''t feel like we have to step on other people''s toes to conduct the US business abroad. It''s not necessarily, I mean it''s important to think about who we might affect and whose feelings we might hurt or in terms of our future relations, but I think that it''s also important to make a statement to the world that we''re not going to do things just because China might not like it, so.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Pull out from television screen to wide of Times Square \u003cbr/\u003eUS President Barack Obama personally welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House on Thursday and lauded his goals for the Tibetan people, but he kept their get-together off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the risk of angering Beijing, Obama did tell the exiled spiritual leader that he backs the preservation of Tibet''s culture and supports human rights for its people. \u003cbr/\u003eHe also gave encouragement to the Dalai Lama''s request for talks with the Chinese government.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking to reporters on the White House driveway, the Dalai Lama declared himself \"very happy\" with the session. \u003cbr/\u003eThe exiled Tibetan leader said he spoke to Obama about the promotion of human value, religious harmony, a greater leadership role for women around the world and the concerns of the Tibetan people. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said Obama was \"very much supportive.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTibetans gathered outside the White House on Thursday to welcome their spiritual leader.\u003cbr/\u003eLater in the day, after leaving the White House, Dalai Lama chided China for what he called its \"childish\" and \"limited\" approach to Tibetan efforts for greater rights. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said he expected a negative Chinese reaction to his meeting with Obama.\u003cbr/\u003eObama''s largely symbolic meeting with the Dalai Lama was kept low-key by comparison to other visiting leaders, out of deference to China who had urged Obama not to meet.\u003cbr/\u003eWith Beijing considering the Buddhist monk a separatist, Obama did not want to overly anger China at a time when its cooperation is needed on nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, climate change and other priorities.\u003cbr/\u003eChina is a rising global rival for the US and a hoped-for partner. \u003cbr/\u003eSo Obama sat down with his fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the Map Room rather than the much-more-photographed Oval Office where presidents usually visit with international leaders. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir talks were held entirely out of view of cameras and the public. \u003cbr/\u003eThe White House released only a single official picture, rather than allow independent photographers and reporters to see the two men together. \u003cbr/\u003eEven the description the White House press office gave reporters of the talks was done on paper.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a briefing at the US State Department, spokesman PJ Crowley voiced concerns about the human rights situation in Tibet, but reiterated the government''s stance that Tibet was a part of China. \u003cbr/\u003eCrowley said he expected US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to express the United States'' support for \"the preservation of Tibet''s unique religious, cultural, linguistic identity,\" during her meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader.\u003cbr/\u003eThe timing was a concession, too, as Obama declined to see the Dalai Lama during his Washington stay in October because it would have come before the president''s November China visit.\u003cbr/\u003eAll these gestures -  small to many but important in the supersensitive world of diplomacy - were meant to tamp down China''s displeasure that Obama was holding the meeting in the first place.   \u003cbr/\u003eChina on Thursday issued a statement criticising the Dalai Lama''s meeting with Obama saying it \"strongly opposes this kind of behaviour\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"Obama''s meeting with Dalai seriously breaks the basic rules of international relations, three Sino-US Joint Communiques and China-US Joint Statement. This meeting also breaks the promise of the One-China policy and the US position that it does not support Tibetan Independence which it has reiterated many times,\" said the statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday. \u003cbr/\u003eChinese internet users have also been attacking the meeting on online forums and Chinese newspapers have published articles saying the meeting could further hurt already strained Sino-US ties.\u003cbr/\u003eBut some Americans still generally feel Obama''s meeting with the Dalai Lama was appropriate.\u003cbr/\u003eWalking through Times Square in New York on Thursday Allison Smith said it was important to make a statement to the world that the United States is not going to do things just because China might not like it.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the Dalai Lama is revered in much of the world, Beijing accuses him of seeking to overthrow Chinese rule and restore a feudal theocracy in the expansive mountainous region. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Dalai Lama and analysts say that is untrue. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile US-Chinese relations have been strained for years over currency and military disputes and other issues, Beijing''s rapid growth of late has the two powerhouses moving closer to equals. \u003cbr/\u003eWith the Chinese government America''s biggest creditor, holding 800 (b) billion US dollars of federal debt, Beijing has extraordinary leverage in the relationship. \u003cbr/\u003eMost recently, the Obama administration''s approval of a multi-billion-dollar arms sale to Taiwan, the self-governing democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, has raised tensions.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the same time, Obama has to balance China''s views against criticism from US lawmakers and activists that he buckled to China too much already on the topic, by not meeting with the Dalai Lama when he came to Washington in October.\u003cbr/\u003eMeetings between the Dalai Lama and US presidents became standard fare under former President George H.W. 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