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China mum on impact of Sarkozy-Dalai Lama meeting
AP - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
BEIJING - China is keeping mum on whether it plans to reduce its trade with France in retaliation for a planned meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Beijing's foe, the Dalai Lama.
Beijing has already canceled a major China-EU summit in protest of the meeting, scheduled to take place next week in Poland. That move sparked concern that business ties between the two countries could suffer _ as they did between China and Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Dalai Lama in Berlin last year.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao on Tuesday repeated Beijing's objections to the meeting.
But asked what the effect on China's trade and business ties with France, Liu declined to answer.
"I believe that the French side is clear on our position," Liu said at a regularly scheduled news conference. "We hope that France will make the correct choice and create a sound atmosphere and conditions for a China-E.U. leaders meeting." He gave no specifics.
China has denounced the Tibetan spiritual leader as a separatist who seeks to end Chinese rule of the Himalayan region. China maintains that Tibet has been part of its territory for more than seven centuries and is extremely sensitive to any perceived challenge to that claim. Many Tibetans say they were effectively an independent country for most of that time. The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule.
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