Dalai Lama to meet with Clinton Thursday

Tibet’s Dalai Lama arrived at Washington’s Park Hyatt hotel today, as seen above. He’ll be meeting separately with Secretary Clinton and President Obama on Thursday. In the wake of Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom, the Chinese probably aren’t too happy.

By , copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009.
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Tibet's Dalai Lama arrived at Washington's Park Hyatt hotel today, as seen above. He'll be meeting separately with Secretary Clinton and President Obama on Thursday. In the wake of Clinton's speech on Internet freedom, the Chinese probably aren't too happy.

Tibet’s Dalai Lama arrived at Washington’s Park Hyatt hotel today, as seen above. He’ll be meeting separately with Secretary Clinton and President Obama on Thursday. In the wake of Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom, the Chinese probably aren’t too happy.

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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