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Lady Gaga would not be able to sell in China after meeting with Dalai Lama
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Lady
Gaga has reportedly been added to a list of hostile foreign forces banned by
China’s Communist party after she met with the Dalai Lama to discuss yoga.
The American pop
singer, who has sold more than 27m albums, met the exiled Tibetan spiritual
leader on Sunday before a conference in Indianapolis.
A video of the 19-minute
encounter – in which the pair pondered issues such as meditation,
mental health and how to detoxify humanity – was posted on the singer’s
Facebook account.
The meeting sparked
an angry reaction from Beijing, which has attacked the spiritual leader as a “wolf in monk’s robes”.
The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in March 1959, insists he
is merely seeking greater autonomy from Chinese rule for Tibetans.
But China’s rulers
consider him a separatist who they claim is
conspiring to split the Himalayan region from China in order to
establish theocratic rule there.
Following Lady Gaga’s
meeting, the Communist party’s mysterious propaganda department issued “an
important instruction” banning her entire repertoire from mainland China, Hong
Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily reported
on Monday.
Chinese websites and
media organisations were ordered to stop uploading or distributing her songs in
a sign of Beijing’s irritation, the newspaper said.
The propaganda
department also issued orders for party-controlled news outlets such as state
broadcaster CCTV and newspapers the People’s Daily and the Global Times to
condemn the meeting.
Asked by a foreign
reporter whether the tête-à-tête would create a “bad romance” between Beijing
and Lady Gaga, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry initially hinted
that he was not familiar with the pop star’s Grammy-winning back catalogue. “Who?”
Hong Lei said when asked for Beijing’s view on the singer’s meeting.
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