Posted on 10/17/2007 5:43:59 AM PDT by NYer
BEIJING, Oct. 16 — Chinese officials warned the United States on Tuesday not to honor the Dalai Lama, saying a planned award ceremony in Washington for the Tibetan spiritual leader would have “an extremely serious impact” on relations between the countries.
Speaking at a Foreign Ministry briefing and on the sidelines of the Communist Party’s 17th National Congress, the officials condemned the Dalai Lama as a resolute separatist and said foreign leaders must stop encouraging his “splittist” mission.
“Such a person who basely splits his motherland and doesn’t even love his motherland has been welcomed by some countries and has even been receiving this or that award,” Tibet’s Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli, told reporters during the congress.
“We are furious,” Mr. Zhang said. “If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world.”
The Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate, has lived in exile since the Chinese army crushed an uprising in his homeland in 1959 and is revered as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. He is scheduled to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday.
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Overheard at a Buddist pizza parlor: “Make me one with everything”.
Or like they are going to quit doing business with their largest trading partner, who's purchases are what is the driving force behind their booming economy. The truth is they should forget about trivial face-saving tripe about the Dalai Lama and get busy working to clean up their own act with their exports. Failure to do so means they run the risk of pissing off the USA and ruining their own economy. It's called Capitalism and the free market, Chicom's. Get with the program, or go back to your isolationist ways. This pissing and moaning about insignificant things like the Dalai Lama is becoming really tiresome.....
Boycott the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics!!
It’s not about the man, it’s about what he represents - Freedom for a country enslaved by China. If you can’t care about that, then what are you even doing on this forum? And nice crack about Christianity - only Christians are worthy of your giving a damn?
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