LONDON, Nov 22 (AFP) - Beijing has warned Walt Disney that links with a film about the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, could jeopardise the group's expansion plans in China, a press report said here Friday.

An official at the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television told the Financial Times that China had made it clear to Disney that it wanted production stopped on the film, which is currently being directed by US filmmaker Martin Scorcese.

"So far as we know the film is going to be anti-China," added the official, who was not named by the paper.

But Disney officials told the FT their company had "no connections" with the production, which is entitled "Kundun".

US entertainment company MCA said it sold the project last year to Disney which is hoping to open theme parks in China as part of a package of Scorcese projects, the daily noted.

A series of revolts and an armed uprising in Tibet in 1959 were crushed by Beijing which has declared Tibet an "autonomous province", but an integral part of Chinese territory.

Most Tibetans consider that the exiled Dalai Lama is their god-king. He fled the country to India after the insurrection of 1959 was crushed.