While there is no love-lost between Tibetians and Chinese, China is now exerting its political strifes across international borders.
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China condemned Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday for "disgusting conduct" for playing host to the Dalai Lama and demanded that Ottawa
stop supporting anti-Chinese activities by exiled Tibetans.
Canada is caught up in the middle of an on-going dispute between these countries.
"The Chinese side demands the Canadian side ... correct its mistaken conduct, immediately adopt effective measures to eliminate adverse impact
(from the meeting) and stop winking at or supporting anti-Chinese activities by Tibetan forces."
Apparently, the Canadians aren't the only ones on the bad list with China.
China cancelled an annual human rights dialogue with Germany to show its displeasure with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's meeting last month
with the Dalai Lama.
I would suppose that any country, from now on in, that shows any amount of decency and compassion towards Tibetians and the Dalai Lama, would not hold
favor with the Chinese.
Side Note
I'm sure this will have an impact on future relations between Canada and China.
Beijing is
set to host Olympics in 2008. The muriad of athletes that will be attending will come from many different countries that have crossed political
swords with China. Hopefully, there won't be any boycotting where this is concerned.
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[edit on 30-10-2007 by TheDuckster]
