Dalai Lama asks US for help with Tibet The Dalai Lama asked Washington for help Monday in improving the situation in Tibet, in the highest level meeting with the US administration since Beijing's crackdown in his homeland. Chinese anger and terror warnings cloud Olympics China said it was outraged by a resolution by U.S. lawmakers urging an end to a crackdown in Tibet as a Beijing-run newspaper linked al Qaeda to claimed plots to attack the Beijing Olympics.