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Q: The Dalai Lama greets the audience before his conference ''A guide to the way of life of Bodhisattva'' in Mexico City, October 12, 2013. 
  
 BEIJING China urged the United States on Friday to scrap plans for U.S. President Barack Obama to meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama later in the day, warning that the planned meeting would "seriously damage" ties between the countries. 
  
 The White House National Security Council said Obama would meet the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday in a show of concern about China's human rights practices. 
  
 Obama's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama is a "gross interference" in China's internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement on the ministry's website. 
  
 (Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee and Ben Blanchard) ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will host Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for a meeting, the White House announced Thursday, prompting swift and vehement protest from China. 
  
 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama acknowledges the audience before speaking at an event entitled: "Happiness, Free Enterprise, and Human Flourishing" Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, at the American Enterprise... (Associated Press) 
  
 The exiled leader is in the U.S. for a three-week speaking tour and has met with Obama twice before. Both previous meetings rankled Beijing, which bitterly opposes the Dalai Lama's quest for greater Tibetan autonomy and is wary about Obama's efforts to increase U.S. influence in the region. 
  
 Obama's meeting with the Nobel laureate on Friday will be in his capacity as a cultural and religious leader, the White House said. But China urged Obama to immediately cancel the meeting, accusing him of letting the Buddhist monk use the White House as a podium to promote anti-Chinese activities. 
  
 "The U.S. leader's planned meeting with Dalai is a gross interference in China's domestic politics," said Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry. "It is a severe violation of the principles of international relations. It will inflict grave damages upon the China-US relationship." 
  
 Beijing routinely protests when world leaders grant an audience to the Dalai Lama, whom Chinese officials denounce as a separatist responsible for instigating self-immolations by Tibetans inside China. 
  
 The U.S. had no immediate response to the rebuke from China. But as if to indicate an overreaction had been expected, the White House reiterated when it announced the meeting earlier Thursday that the U.S. recognizes Tibet as part of China and doesn't support Tibetan independence. 
  
 "The United States supports the Dalai Lama's 'Middle Way' approach of neither assimilation nor independence for Tibetans in China," said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the White House's National Security Council. She added that presidents of both parties have met with the Dalai Lama for decades. 
  
 At the same time, officials said they were concerned about tensions and deteriorating human rights in China's Tibetan areas, urging Beijing to resume talks with the Dalai Lama or his followers without preconditions. 
  
 China, in its response to the meeting, said it had relayed its concerns formally to the U.S. and urged Washington to treat its concerns seriously. 
  
 Obama was to host the Nobel laureate for a private, morning meeting in the White House's Map Room. Traditionally, when Obama meets with presidents and prime ministers, he hosts them in the Oval Office and allows reporters to witness a short portion of the meeting. The decision to hold the meeting elsewhere and to close the meeting to reporters could signal an attempt to avoid the appearance of a formal meeting between two heads of state. 
  
 Relations between the U.S. and China are already on edge over Beijing's increasingly aggressive steps to assert itself in the region, including in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors. China's emergence as a leading global economic and military power has strained ties with Washington, and the two have also clashed over cyber theft and human rights. 
  
 The Dalai Lama is a frequent visitor in the U.S. During his current three-week visit, he also has public speaking events in California and Minnesota. On Thursday, he delivered a message of compassion and care for humanity while addressing free market mavens at a right-leaning Washington think tank. 
  
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 Associated Press writer Matthew Pennington in Washington and AP news assistant Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report. |||||
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China has warned President Obama that he will inflict "grave damages upon the China-US relationship" if he meets with the Dalai Lama today as planned. The White House says the president will meet the Tibetan spiritual leader as a show of concern for human rights in China—a move China's foreign ministry calls "gross interference" in the country's internal affairs, Reuters reports. Even before the Chinese protest, the White House reiterated that it does not support independence for Tibet. "The United States supports the Dalai Lama's 'Middle Way' approach of neither assimilation nor independence for Tibetans in China," a spokeswoman said, noting that presidents from both parties have met with the Dalai Lama many times over the decades. This will be Obama's third meeting with the Tibetan leader, and the previous two occasions brought similar protests from China, the AP notes.