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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. 
 
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 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. 
 
 Benjamin Haas 本雅明 (@haasbenjamin) Me: will @ladygaga meeting with @DalaiLama lead to a bad romance with China? 
 
 
 
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 Hong went on to condemn the Dalai Lama’s global campaigning. 
 
 “The purpose of his visits and activities in other countries is just to promote his proposal for Tibetan independence,” the spokesperson said, according to AP. “We hope that people from the international community can be fully aware of his true colours and nature.” 
 
 All mention of the Lady Gaga controversy appeared to have been purged from the official transcript of that press conference. 
 
 On Tuesday afternoon it was still possible to download Poker Face and Bad Romance on China’s QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music players. But a report about the Dalai Lama’s meeting with Lady Gaga appeared to have been deleted from the NetEase website. 
 
 China has previously banned artists and groups such as Maroon 5, Bjork and Oasis from performing in the country after they met with the Dalai Lama or spoke out in favour of him or Tibetan independence. 
 
 Experts suggested the American singer would have gone into her meeting with the spiritual leader with her eyes wide open as to the consequences. 
 
 “Lady Gaga knew how Beijing would react,” Bill Bishop, who runs the Sinocism newsletter, wrote on Twitter. “Good for her to show some courage, unlike most celebrities who are scared of bullying Beijing now.” 
 
 Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) Thank you for this special day. Science tells us kindness improves health, let's take care of the body of our nation pic.twitter.com/jsvlTy5pTH 
 
 Lady Gaga, whose career has survived previous bans in China, has yet to respond to China’s reported ban of her work. 
 
 During her meeting with the Dalai Lama she said: “We have to cool the system down. It’s about less heat, more cooling, more relaxation but also [being] thoughtful and strategic.” 

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Lady Gaga speaking at the US Conference of Mayors where she met the Dalai Lama 
 
 Chinese fans have reacted with outrage to Lady Gaga's meeting with the Dalai Lama over the weekend. 
 
 Her social media posts about meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader on Sunday have led to online speculation over whether she will still be allowed to perform in the country. 
 
 Lady Gaga is one of, if not the most, popular western musician in mainland China. 
 
 Yet she has irked mainland fans by showing her support for the Dalai Lama, who many feel is a figurehead for Tibetan separatism. 
 
 The Dalai Lama says he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not independence for Tibet. 
 
 'Has not considered Chinese fans' 
 
 Lady Gaga's popularity in mainland China means that she is often a major talking point for entertainment and mainstream media there. 
 
 However, such media have been notably quiet on her 26 June meeting, meaning that it largely went unnoticed. 
 
 Image copyright Free Weibo Image caption Censorship-monitoring website Free Weibo said posts mentioning the meeting were censored 
 
 Some Weibo users have had their posts censored for sharing pictures of the singer's Instagram post. 
 
 But fans have been determined to talk about it. More than 2,000 users have reacted to one prominent user MusicWars's post about the story, calling for "rational views on the matter". 
 
 Many have been quick to condemn Lady Gaga, asking whether she is "stupid" or "ignorant" on the subject of Chinese political sensitivity. 
 
 "She has not considered Chinese fans," says -GeorgeLee-, receiving over 1,000 likes. 
 
 DIZzyF says "she has given up on the Chinese market" and Svaniscono7 accuses her of causing controversy to stay relevant in a waning market. "The political depths this turtle will go to, to stay ashore," she says. 
 
 Yet lotusb defends her, saying "she should not be ashamed" and adding that some of her fans had "gone over the Chinese firewall" to find out why she met the Dalai Lama, and then tried to "painstakingly explain her reasons to other Chinese fans". 
 
 "We should respect all of her choices," he added. His comment received over 400 likes. 
 
 Other concerts cancelled 
 
 Many Weibo users are also speculating over whether Lady Gaga's meeting will mean she is banned from performing in China in the future. 
 
 A number of western acts have had their gigs cancelled in the last year, purportedly because of their links to the Dalai Lama. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Selena Gomez's gig was cancelled, reportedly because of pictures of her with the Dalai Lama 
 
 In April, pop singer Selena Gomez cancelled her August 2016 tour dates in Guangzhou and Shanghai, and rumours circulated that she had been forced to do so because of photos she shared on social media with the Dalai Lama. 
 
 Last September, Bon Jovi concerts in Shanghai and Beijing were also cancelled at the last minute, reportedly because the band featured the Dalai Lama in previous gigs. 
 
 And in July, a Dalai Lama tweet by one member of Maroon 5 was widely believed to be the reason for the American band's cancelled Shanghai September tour. 
 
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– You won't be hearing, or likely seeing, Lady Gaga in China anytime soon. After the singer met with the Dalai Lama on Sunday to talk meditation and mental health, the Communist Party's propaganda department ordered her songs banned in China, while state-controlled media were ordered to condemn the meeting, reports the Guardian. A government rep suggests he's never heard of the singer—whom the BBC describes "one of, if not the most, popular Western musician in mainland China"—but says the Dalai Lama was trying to promote Tibetan independence, per the AP. (Click for 22 celebs who've been banned from places.)