Good. There's no reason why China should dictate US foreign policy.
"The president told China's leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama and he intends to do so," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters traveling with Obama to New Hampshire.NOTE FROM JOHN: Wow. Okay I'm impressed. But China can get might bitchy about these sort of things. It will be interesting to see if Obama can avoid his instinct to make nice.
"We expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work on areas of mutual concern such as climate, the global economy and non-proliferation and discuss frankly and candidly those areas where we disagree."
