China to Canada: Dalai Lama award could hurt ties

[im10ashus]

OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- China said on Wednesday that Canada's decision to bestow honorary citizenship on the Dalai Lama could hurt commercial relations between the two countries, which have been steadily growing stronger.

The Tibetan leader-in-exile, who fled his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, is considered by Beijing to be a separatist.

Canada's Parliament unanimously approved the award of an honorary citizenship last month, which will be bestowed on the Dalai Lama when he visits Vancouver in early September.

The honor will mark the third time Canada has bestowed honorary citizenship. The others are former South African President Nelson Mandela and Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in World War II.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/07/26/canada.dalai.china.reut/index.html

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Too bad Tibet didn't have oil under their dirt or

would could be over there pontificating about the moral atrocities of oppression etc, etc, etc.

[im10ashus]

4. No kidding. n/t

[Amonester]

2. Well, as long as they don't "decide" to invade us....

If that's the "price" we must pay, then be it.

And RIP to China's UN Peacekeeper.
Let's share our pain together. :cry:

[TahitiNut]

3. Dear China: Go Fuck Yourselves and The Whores You Rode In On

Tibet a province of China? BULLSHIT!

Dear Canada: :yourock:

5. ditto