Sunday, February 07, 2010

A Canadian Univ honors the Dalai Lama. So, China bans the univ.

The White House kowtowing to China over the Tibet/Dalai Lama issue is not anything new.  And with the strained Sino-US relations--recently over Taiwan, the currency, Iran's nukes--, I suppose China sees an opportunity to up its rhetoric.
But, to aim its guns at a university?  And that too in Canada? Over the university honoring the Dalai Lama?  Yep,  that is what happened:
China has taken the University of Calgary off its list of accredited universities, most likely because it gave the Dalai Lama an honorary degree last September when he visited Calgary, according to the Calgary Herald. The university has about 600 students from China and is trying to find out what the sanction means for graduates who are back in China, as well as for current students. ... The Tibetan spiritual leader did not go to the campus but received the degree at the start of a conference in the city.

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