Great Regulars: Obama encouraged China and the Dalai Lama's

envoys to continue efforts to resolve their differences through negotiations, although the talks have yet to achieve concrete progress.

Reporters were barred from the meeting, but the Dalai Lama told journalists on the White House driveway that he had expressed his admiration for the United States as a "champion of democracy, freedom, human values."

Amid signs that relations between Beijing and Washington may already be cooling after the White House rejected Chinese demands to cancel the meeting, the Dalai Lama joined a group of Tibetan émigrés for a Tibetan New Year celebration.

from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Dalai Lama Meets Obama

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