Is China trying to antagonize the US by making an issue of the Dalai Lama's visit and award?

Question

It seems Bush is keeping a low profile:
"No media access was allowed to Bush's meeting with the Dalai Lama . . . . In an exception to normal practice, the Bush administration did not release any pictures of the meeting. Nor did it put out a formal statement on it.
"We in no way want to stir the pot and make China feel that we are poking a stick in their eye . . ." said press secretary Dana Perino.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071016/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_dalai_lama;_ylt=AmRotvcG09yOzxGlCeyikEys0NUE

Is this a change in Bush's approach to foreign relations?

Answer 1

They are flexing their new muscles.They are quickly moving into the 20th century,that isn't a typo,they have a long way to go before they enter the 21st century.
They are awash with hard currency and are spreading around the world to buy influence.
they will soon discover that influence bought is the first influence lost(as we in the U.S.discovered at the end of the cold war).
They are still a quasi communist regime with a dissatisfied populace,in another 10 years they will have more internal problems than they can deal with.

Answer 2

BEIJING, Oct. sixteen — chinese language officers warned the USA to no longer honor the Dalai Lama, asserting a planned award rite for the Tibetan non secular chief would have “an exceptionally extreme consequence” on kin between the international places. conversing at a distant places Ministry briefing and on the sidelines of the Communist social gathering’s ongoing seventeenth nationwide Congress, the officers condemned the Dalai Lama as a resolute separatist and reported distant places leaders ought to end encouraging his “splittist” venture. “one in each of those individual who basely splits his motherland and doesn’t even love his motherland has been welcomed by ability of a few international places and has even been receiving this or that award,” Tibet’s Communist social gathering boss, Zhang Qingli, informed newshounds for the period of the congress. In present day months, China has stepped up its assaults on the Dalai Lama even nonetheless chinese language officers and envoys from the Tibetan chief have engaged in a on-and-off communicate over phrases of reconciliation. mutually as Beijing says it rather is keen to permit the Dalai Lama to return to China if he delivers to comprehend chinese language sovereignty over Tibet, they have disregarded his efforts to artwork for a “middle way” that provides Tibet an more advantageous degree of autonomy below persevered chinese language rule. The Dalai Lama as quickly as reported, "do no longer forget that no longer getting what you want is from time to time a magnificent stroke of success." He would rather comprehend. The chief of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso become in uncomplicated terms 5 years previous while he become put in because of the fact the 14th Dalai Lama in 1940. in basic terms approximately 20 years later, he supported Tibet in a combat against chinese language rule. compelled to get away, the Dalai Lama has lived in exile in Dharamsala on account that then. at present he's to get carry of the Congressional Medal of Honor in a rite on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Quote "Be variety each time a probability. it rather is continuously a probability." — Dalai Lama

Answer 3

No, they are just making a statement. Everybody wants to make a statement about what they like and want.

Answer 4

China needs to mind their own business and feed their people.

Answer 5

No change. Dr. Bush has always welcomed dialouge with upstanding public figures from across the globe.

Answer 6

No. Bush is trying to antagonize the Chinese.