This gem is courtesy of the Chinese state media:

BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said here Thursday that the Dalai Lama’s appointing [his] successor will violate religious rituals and historical conventions of Tibetan Buddhism.

And yet, somehow, China’s systematic murder of more than 1.2 million Tibetans and the brutal torture of thousands of others is in keeping with religious rituals and historical conventions of Tibetan Buddhism?