Obama Metting the Dalai Lama

President Obama should not keep his plans to meet with the Dalai Lama.

Does meeting the Dalai Lama benefit the U.S. in any way? No, the meeting will only increase the tension even more between China and the U.S. According to the New York Times, Zhu Weigun (a senior Chinese official) said “Any move by American leaders to meet the Dalai Lama will harm others but bring no profit to itself.” The U.S. will not receive money or goods if President Obama meets the Dalai Lama. The outcome would be negative towards the U.S. such as China setting up sanctions against the U.S. like they would have with France. Afterwards, the U.S. would have regretted the meeting since China will have consequences for the U.S.

China won’t change their decision about Tibet having its own government if the U.S. gets involved. Just because the U.S. president may meet the Dalai Lama doesn’t mean that China will listen to the U.S. and let Tibet be self-governing. Imagine that you are on a hockey team and a few players have a good play that is different from the coach. Their coach wants to use his play and he won’t change his mind. One of the players’ parent agrees with their child’s plan but the coach still won’t use their idea and he uses his play. The U.S. is the parent and China is the coach. Even though the players (Tibet) have a different idea than the coach, he is in charge and he doesn’t care about the parent’s input. China is in control here and their way goes.