Beijing, (EFE).- The Chinese Government today warned Taiwan not to allow the Dalai Lama to visit, after a parliamentarian from the island extended an invitation to the religious leader.
“The intention of some Taiwanese representatives to conspire with separatists seeking Tibetan independence and create unrest will have a severe impact on cross-Strait relations.” (from Formosa)”, Ma Xiaoguang said today, of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of China.
“We firmly oppose the Dalai Lama visiting Taiwan in any way”, Ma warned, in statements published today by the official Xinhua agency.
Freddy Lim, a famous anti-Beijing heavy metal singer who was elected to parliament last January, invited the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan when he met him in India last week.
Beijing, which interprets Taiwan to be part of China according to the Consensus of 1992 -known as “a China, two interpretations”, opposes other leaders, and less Taipei, welcome the dalai lama, whom he accuses of orchestrating separatist movements in Tibet and in Chinese provinces through which the Tibetan plateau extends.
Although former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou, more favorable to Beijing, He refused to invite the Dalai Lama several times after he visited the island in 2009 (when she didn't get to meet him), the current president, Tsport On Tsa-Wen, of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), has not commented on the matter.
Tsai has not said whether her government would allow a visit by the octogenarian Buddhist leader., exiled in Dharamsala (India) since China invaded Tibet in 1950. The Dalai Lama, Ma Xiaoguang said today, “he hides in religious clothing to carry out his separatist activities”. EFE.
