{"id":2592,"date":"2014-02-21T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2014-02-21T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T01:40:48","slug":"obama-to-host-dalai-lama-on-friday-at-white-house-us-urges-china-to-talk-with-tibetan-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/21\/obama-to-host-dalai-lama-on-friday-at-white-house-us-urges-china-to-talk-with-tibetan-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to host Dalai Lama on Friday at White House; US urges China to talk with Tibetan leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2618\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DalaiLama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2618\" alt=\" The Dalai Lama\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DalaiLama-197x300.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DalaiLama-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DalaiLama.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dalai Lama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Date\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; President Barack Obama will meet with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says Obama is hosting the Dalai Lama in his capacity as a respected religious and cultural leader.<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel laureate is famed for his peaceful struggle for greater Tibetan autonomy that China bitterly opposes.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden says the U.S. supports the Dalai Lama&#8217;s &#8220;middle way&#8221; approach. She says the U.S. recognizes Tibet as part of China and doesn&#8217;t support Tibetan independence.<\/p>\n<p>But she says the U.S. is concerned about tensions and deteriorating human rights in China&#8217;s Tibetan areas. She says the U.S. will keep urging China to talk with the Dalai Lama without preconditions.<\/p>\n<p>Obama met with the Dalai Lama in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 WASHINGTON &#8211; President Barack Obama will meet with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[442,443,353,352],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-dalai","tag-lama","tag-obama","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}