Meeting Dalai Lama an offence: China warns world leaders
China on Saturday warned that it would consider as a "major offence" if any country or foreign leader hosts or meets the Dalai Lama. "Hope governments around the world speak and act with caution and give full consideration to their friendship with China," officials said. China considers the Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in India in 1959, a separatist.