[canada & china] the humiliation worsens

Dalai Lama [ Globe and Mail]

This thing between Canada and China has its antecedents. So it was always going to displease Beijing when the Dalai Lama touched down, scheduled to talk with the Conservatives, while the Chinese patiently waited in the ante-room to meet with the Foreign Office and there may be more than a little ‘sticking it up the Sinos’ in this. The Chinese prefer to call it ‘an accumulation of slights’ and I expostulate: 'To hell with them.'