The Dalai Lama speaks at the American Enterprise Institute during a panel discussion on “Happiness, Free Enterprise, and Human Flourishing” in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. AFP PHOTO
WASHINGTON: United States (US) President Barack Obama will host Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday (Saturday in Manila), a move China said would “seriously impair” ties as it called for the meeting to be canceled.