As US Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke strong words after meeting the Dalai Lama, China on Friday warned against any  international “meddling” in its “internal affairs” and asked countries like India not to be “misled” by the spiritual leader’s “nice words”.

“We oppose any country, any organisation, any person interfering in China’s internal affairs. We have stated clearly that Tibet is China’s internal affair.

“We don’t allow anybody to meddle in China’s internal affairs. Any attempt to cause trouble to China is doomed to fail,” Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan told a press conference here.

His strong words came as US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala and asked all freedom loving people to speak out against China’s “oppression” in Tibet.

Meeting challenges
Arriving to a rousing welcome here, she said the US Congress will continue to meet the challenge of conscience that Tibet offers.

“Situation in Tibet is a challenge to conscience of the world...the challenge we can help meet,” Pelosi said at a public reception accorded to her in this hill town.

The Dalai Lama, the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, along with all members of the Tibetan Parliament welcomed Pelosi and the nine members of the US Congress at the main Buddha temple here.
Pelosi, who had a meeting with the Dalai Lama, said Tibetan struggle demanded the truth from China on the situation in Lhasa and other adjoining areas.

“We insist that the world know what the truth is in Tibet. If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China’s oppression in Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on Human Rights anywhere in the world,” said Pelosi.

China, which has voiced its opposition to her meeting with the Dalai Lama, is understood to be closely watching her trip to Dharamshala.

The envoy was guarded in his comments on India saying China appreciated the position adopted by New Delhi and hoped that it would continue to have the “correct” stand with regard to developments in Tibet.

On Pelosi’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, Yan said “no country, organisation or person” should “take any irresponsible step or say irresponsible words” on happenings in Tibet.

Asked about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s reported views that the Tibetan spiritual leader is a believer in non-violence, Yan said the Dalai Lama used the “so-called non-violent (approach) to cheat the international community and win so-called support of the people who blindly follow him”.

He said he was keeping the Indian government informed on all developments and the situation in Lhasa and other areas.

“We have a very good communication. I think your (Indian) government is very well informed. That is why your government can take correct and also proper position in keeping with its maintenance of diplomacy (with China) on Tibet issue,” he said.

The ambassador has said incidents in Lhasa has “shown the nature of his (Dalai Lama’s) intentions whether he is really non-violent”.

The Chinese Embassy organised screening of a documentary for the media in its bid to prove that the Dalai Lama had “masterminded” the violence in Lhasa.

Notwithstanding denials by the Dalai Lama, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan insisted that “deeds” of the Tibetan leader show he was behind the unrest in Lhasa and that India and others should “see through his intentions”.