Rev. Danny Fisher

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The Agence France-Presse is reporting that Jeff Bader, U.S. President Barack Obama’s senior director for Asia on the White House’s National Security Council, recently told the Chinese-American group the Committee of 100 that it should “use its influence in Beijing to encourage a different view of the Dalai Lama.” The article continues:

“I hope that you will use that credibility and those relationships to help persuade Chinese officials that the Dalai Lama is not part of their problem but rather part of the solution to the situation in Tibet,” Bader said.

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Bader acknowledged that human rights have become an irritant in US-China relations — “unsurprisingly, because Chinas’s human rights record, as we know, is poor.”

But he said Obama believed the most effective way to persuade China was to lead by example, citing the president’s decision to shut down the widely condemned “war on terror” detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“President Obama does not believe in lecturing. He believes in leading by example, not finger-pointing,” Bader said.

[Image via the Brookings Institute.]