China criticizes McCain for meeting Dalai Lama

Monday 28th July, 07:31 PM JST

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OssanULTRA at 01:26 AM JST - 29th July

It's none of China's business who a candidate for US President meets or doesn't meet. If they had any brains they'd wait till the Olympics were over and wait to see if McCain became president. Then they could gripe, at which point I'd tell them it's none of China's business who the President of the United States meets or doesn't meet.
Surge at 01:55 AM JST - 29th July

Way to go McCain. A strong defender of everything that is great about the US. China mind your own business!!! McCain is not only a war hero but a genuine man of peace, what a guy!!!
ca1ic0cat at 02:37 AM JST - 29th July

I wonder if Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama? And if he does, will China criticize him?

The one thing to like about McCain is that he's not inclined to put popularity (especially in DC) ahead of principle. Too bad he wasn't the candidate in 2000 instead of Bush.
reddragonguy at 09:28 AM JST - 29th July

McCain probably will be the next president but he will be the weakest one, China blashing him is good for him to understand Chinese has zero tolerances over this.
Surge at 09:31 AM JST - 29th July

reddragon, you think he is scared of China. A third world country full of Commies is not gonna concern the greatest nation on Earth.
UnagiDon at 09:37 AM JST - 29th July

China has no right to criticize, as this is purely an internal matter of the US. The day that China has the right to criticize what happens in Colorado, is the day the US has the right to criticize what happen in somewhere like, say, Tibet?
Kwaabish at 10:19 AM JST - 29th July

pfffttt... yet another ignored complaint. The CCP just can't learn....
SezWho2 at 11:12 AM JST - 29th July

undecidedbout08,

Is the Republic of China "White China", "Green China", "Black China", "Blue China" or "Bone China"? No clear thinking can be done when we welcome prejudicial terms into our language.

I don't think Obama is so far ahead in the polls. However, I don't think that has anything to do with China's criticism of McCain. I feel reasonably sure that China would criticize Obama for meeting with the Dalai Lama, too, were he to do that.

The reasons for the criticism are obvious and have been often and well-stated. You may disagree with China's actions in Tibet, but it is easy to see that China fears the separatist movement there. And it is easy to understand that it has reason to believe that the US might be willing to support that movement.
SezWho2 at 11:15 AM JST - 29th July

Of course China has a right to criticize. So does the US and it often does so.
reddragonguy at 11:44 AM JST - 29th July

How much debts does the United states owed China after her wars on terror. Mr McCain is a real good next president and he is going to continue thise wars Bush left behind, so...more debts will be owed! Thats the reason the debt owner has the rights to criticize
Blue_Tiger at 08:09 PM JST - 29th July

SezWho, get your head out of the sand: Red China is the common term for the People's Republic of China, a communist country since 1949, and sayign that there is no Red China is something the People's Republic want you to believe.
Terrikus at 12:05 AM JST - 30th July

Its a term that only serves to justify their hatred towards the nation. Whatever, it makes it all the more comical to me.
undecidedbout08 at 12:07 AM JST - 30th July

Red China has no business meddling in the internal affairs of the US or any sovereign state. Good for Sen. McCain. I look forward to watching Sen. Obama have a chance to meet his Holiness, the Dalai Lama.I notice that the senator was most eager to visit the Wailing Wall on his recent trip to Jerusalem. He even disclosed a copy of the prayer he inserted. He seems to be a devout Christian, aware of the role Judaism plays in his adopted religion. Meeting a Buddhist of the Dalai Lama's stature would only increase the senator's popularity with young folk.
SezWho2 at 06:37 PM JST - 30th July

Blue Tiger,

According to the powers that be, my posts have had nothing to do with McCain and the Dalai Lama. Of course, I really don't see that yours does either, but so be it.

I think it is fine for McCain to meet with the Dalai Lama. I think it is fine for the leaders of the PRC to criticize him for doing so. I think it would have been fine, as someone else suggested earlier, for McCain to have criticized Hu Jintao and others for not meeting with the Dalai Lama.

What is not fine is for McCain or others to constantly harangue China about human rights abuses or to encourage separatism. Neither is it fine for McCain to meet with the Dalai Lama to stir up misplaced anti-Communist sentiment in the United States. China has many problems, but it is not the country that it was in 1949 and for Americans to pretend otherwise is to fight against phantoms.
SezWho2 at 11:35 PM JST - 30th July

I think that the issue here is that the PRC is miffed with McCain for meeting with the Dalai Lama and its fear is legitimate that McCain will encourage Tibetan separatism. Given our actions of late in the former Soviet Republics and in the Middle East, I certainly think its fear is well grounded.

Again, if McCain wants to criticize, that's fine too. But its better to know exactly who and what one is criticizing and to do so objectively.