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Published: Saturday February 20, 2010 MYT 7:16:00 AM
Dalai Lama: Chinese leaders should retire
WASHINGTON (AP):
The Dalai Lama has a suggestion for improving China. Communist party leaders should "retire with grace" and allow democracy to take over.
Speaking a day after meeting with President Barack Obama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists said Friday that China's ruling communist party lacks popular support and is more about authoritarian capitalism than true socialism.
He says China's communist leaders value money more than equal rights.
His comments came as China said the Dalai Lama's meeting Thursday with Obama "seriously harms U.S.-China relations."
China accuses the Dalai Lama of seeking to remove Tibet from Chinese rule and objects strongly to all his contact with foreign leaders.
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Dalai Lama: Chinese leaders should retire
WASHINGTON (AP):
The Dalai Lama has a suggestion for improving China. Communist party leaders should "retire with grace" and allow democracy to take over.
Speaking a day after meeting with President Barack Obama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists said Friday that China's ruling communist party lacks popular support and is more about authoritarian capitalism than true socialism.
He says China's communist leaders value money more than equal rights.
His comments came as China said the Dalai Lama's meeting Thursday with Obama "seriously harms U.S.-China relations."
China accuses the Dalai Lama of seeking to remove Tibet from Chinese rule and objects strongly to all his contact with foreign leaders.
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