Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-14
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office warned Taiwan not to allow Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama 
to visit Taiwan, threatening it would “severely affect” cross-strait relations.
Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, rebuked the Dalai Lama in a regular press briefing on Wednesday, saying that he “carries out separatist activities under the cloak of religion.”
The Dalai Lama fled into exile in India in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Communist rule and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
The criticism came after a pro-independence Taiwanese lawmaker’s invitation to visit. The rock star politician Freddy Lim was elected as a legislator in January and traveled to the Indian town of Dharamsala in the Himalayan foothills, along with Democratic Progressive Party legislator Kolas Yotaka and a civic group Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan, to meet the Dalai Lama in early September. [FULL STORY]
