Beijing: Sharply attacking the US House of Representatives resolution on Tibet as "rude interference" in its internal affairs, China today demanded that American lawmakers immediately stop "remarks and deeds" that hurt the Chinese feelings and harmed Sino-US relations.

"China is strongly indignant and opposed to this resolution," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said, a day after the resolution was passed calling on Beijing to end its crackdown in Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned in peaceful demonstrations.

The resolution, which also asked for unfettered access to international monitors and journalists, was proposed by the Speaker Nancy Pelosi who said, "more insulting of all is that China insists that the (Olympic) torch go through Tibet.. The world should not allow that to happen."

Pelosi had invited the anger of China recently after she met the Dalai Lama in India and expressed her full support to Tibetans in exile.

Jiang said, "What happened in Lhasa on March 14 was not at all peaceful demonstration or non-violence activities as labeled by the Dalai clique but naked crimes of violence."

She said some US Congress members "utterly confounded" right and wrong by turning a "blind eye" to the mobs which conducted looting, arson and assaulted people, while leaving the "Dalai clique which masterminded the violent crimes free from condemnation" and instead blaming the Chinese government.
Source : PTI