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written by The Associated Press
Tuesday February 2, 2010 at 1:39am PT
BEIJING - China said a possible meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would further hurt Sino-U.S. relations, and vowed to go ahead with sanctions against U.S. companies selling arms to Taiwan.
China has become increasingly assertive in opposing meetings between the Dalai Lama and foreign leaders, and a meeting between the exiled Tibetan leader and Obama would add to the litany of troubles between the world's biggest and third biggest economies.
Relations between the United States and China have soured over a range of issues from trade and currency policies to control of the Internet.
There has been widespread speculation that Obama will meet the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan Buddhist monk visits the United States in coming months. The White House has not publicly confirmed any such meeting.
'Strongly opposed'
Zhu Weiqun, a Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of China's ruling Communist Party, said his government would vehemently oppose any meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, who Beijing deems a dangerous separatist.
"If the U.S. leader chooses this time to meet the Dalai Lama, that would damage trust and cooperation between our two countries, and how would that help the United States surmount the current economic crisis?" said Zhu.
Sanctions?
Even a brief symbolic encounter between the U.S. leader and the Dalai Lama would stoke ire in Beijing, already angered by U.S. proposals last week to sell $6.4 billion of weapons to Taiwan, the disputed island that China treats as an illegitimate breakaway province.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu, on Tuesday repeated Beijing's threat to impose sanctions against U.S. companies which sell arms to Taiwan.
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