Obama, Dalai Lama to appear in public; move set to rile China

February 01, 2015 16:08

US President Barack Obama will appear at a high-profile public event this week that the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is also attending, a move that is set to anger China.

Obama will address attendees about the importance of religious freedom on February 5 at the annual National Prayer Breakfast.

The 14th Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in his Himalayan homeland and has lived in exile in India ever since, has also been invited to the meeting.

Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama, 79, of being a separatist seeking to split Tibet from the rest of China and of fomenting unrest in the remotely-located strategic region.

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