China today warned that it would consider as a major offence if any country or foreign leader hosts or meets the Dalai Lama as it deems the Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist trying to split Tibet from it. <br/><br/>China routinely protests world leaders meeting the Dalai<br/>Lama. It also makes it mandatory for all the foreign governments to recognise Tibet as part of China to have diplomatic relations with Beijing.<br/><br/>Zhang Yijiong, Executive Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) said on the sidelines of the once-in-a-five-year congress of the CPC. <br/><br/>He said China would not accept the arguments of foreign countries and leaders to meet the 82-year-old Dalai Lama as a religious leader.<br/><br/>The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959. He has been living in India in exile since then.