Despite strong opposition from the Chinese government,
Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama at the White House.
The Chinese government considers the Tibetan spiritual
leader a separatist, and bans open displays of his photograph in Tibet.
In an article published in November, the top Communist Party official in
Tibet signaled how China
was planning to clamp down on the Dalai Lama’s ability to get his
message out.
“Strike hard against the reactionary propaganda,” Chen Quanguo, the
party chief in Tibet, wrote in the party journal Qiushi. He said the
government would confiscate illegal satellite dishes, heighten
monitoring of online content and take other measures to prevent the
dissemination of the Dalai Lama’s message in areas with Tibetan
populations so that “the voice and image of the enemy forces and the
Dalai clique are neither seen nor heard.”
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