China didn't let Kitty Hawk into Hong Kong because US met with Dalai Lama !

A senior Chinese official denied that his country's foreign minister called an incident involving a U.S. aircraft carrier a ``misunderstanding'' and said China was upset over President George W. Bush's recent meeting with the Dalai Lama. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao also said the U.S. was ultimately responsible for the fact that the USS Kitty Hawk didn't make a port call in Hong Kong last week. ``We feel relations are overall good, but there's been some interference,'' Liu said today during a briefing in Beijing. ``Particularly, actions by U.S. leaders, such as the meeting with the Dalai Lama and the U.S. congressional medal award'' given to the exiled Tibetan leader

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