Dalai Lama invite by US-Indian chancellor angers China

India will face serious consequences if its overseas citizens meddle in Chinese affairs by courting and promoting Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, a Chinese newspaper has said, continuing the recent trend of demonising India in a section of state-controlled media in China, writes Sutirtho Patranobis for Hindustan Times.

This time the nationalistic tabloid Global Times – known for its strong views – picked on the Indian American chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, Pradeep Khosla, for inviting the “the exiled spiritual head and leader of the Tibetan people” the Dalai Lama to address graduating students in June.

Apparently, the invitation triggered much anger among Chinese students from the mainland at the university; and, in Beijing, it triggered a harshly-worded opinion piece, which often lapsed into insults, repeatedly referring to Indians as “these Indians”.
Full report on the Hindustan Times site