Taiwan rejects Dalai Lama visit
- Published: 22 Nov 2012 at 15.47
- Online news: Asia
Taiwan has decided to bar the Dalai Lama from entering the island, triggering an angry response from a women's organisation that had invited him to a meeting there next month.
File picture. Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama waves from a train in Tsaoying, in southern Taiwan, during a visit in September 2009. Taiwan has decided to bar the Dalai Lama from entering the island, triggering an angry response from a women's organisation that had invited him to a meeting there next month.
The Taiwan chapter of the Federation of Business and Professional Women, headed by former vice president Annette Lu, said the move reflected fear of angering China, which sees the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as a separatist.
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