BEIJING, July 16 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama spent about 45 minutes Saturday with the Dalai Lama, rejecting a call from China to cancel the meeting.
The meeting, which began just after 11:30 a.m., was private, the White House said. Neither Obama nor the Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists, made any statement about it.