Source: China – South China Morning PostA month after Angela Merkel wrapped up her second state visit to China as German chancellor in 2007, and three weeks before the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress in October that year, she hosted Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at her chancellery in Berlin – a toxic move for relations with Beijing.Merkel gave her hosts no warning of the meeting during her four-day state visit to China, when China and Germany agreed to a three-year series of events marking the 35th anniversary…Read More