First it was Madonna who was 'outrageous' in her jean paul gaultier cone-shaped bra. Then Muslims were outraged over comics. Now China is outraged. This all started with Madonna. She is so outrageous.

david, phoenix, az

Nicole is right. Hers is mine.

aban, Nanjing, China

Screaming and shouting and all the propagandising text books in world don't alter historical fact. The Chinese only arrived in the 17th century and were finally thrown out in 1913. The British were in India longer.

Spencer, Stafford,

we should respect dependent country,they have the right to deal with matters within,without others supervision.

esa, china,

Bush and the art of making enemies.

Andrew, Glasgow, UK

All these comments and rude words you use showed your ignorance about chinese people and prejudice against chinese government.
Every country has its own historical problems which is hard for the outsiders to judge ,especially under the condition that all of your knowledge comes from the media which inevitably has its own political bias.
I wonder what will your government react if a so called spiritual leader stand out to split the North Ireland from your Great Britain,they may have the right to do so.

Baifan, Jilin, China

All these comments and rude words you use showed your ignorance about chinese people and prejudice against chinese government.
Every country has its own historical problems which is hard for the outsiders to judge ,especially under the condition that all of your knowledge comes from the media which inevitably has its own political bias.
I wonder what will your government react if a so called spiritual leader stand out to split the North Ireland from your Great Britain,they may have the right to do so.

Bai, Jilin, China

It's sadly ironic that China should pull out of a human rights symposium with Germany, in response to their hospitality for a man who more than any other, perhaps, embodies the struggle for human rights today.

Bruno Lacey, London, UK

How about the Chinese stop interferring in the internal affairs of others, in the case the US? How imprudent it is of the Chinese to tell mr Bush who he should meet and who not.

Niklas Monrad, Amsterdam,

America please tell the Chinese where to go. Their murderous policies against their own people would mean most t of their political leaders having to spend the rest of their life in prison. Now they are directing the murderous Burmese criminals.

riley, Kyiv, Ukraine

So China is outraged over the US giving an award to the Dalai Lama. Perhaps the US should back the Dalai Lama as the new King of Burma - just to really annoy them.

Roger Beaumont, Bangkok, Thailand

Good for George W Bush! China has illegally occupied Tibet for over half a century. As for Mr Zhang saying “This is brutal interference in China’s internal affairs" - well China has brutally occupied an independent sovereign country for many years, exporting its disgusting human rights record there. Mr Zhang is, unfortunately, a hypocrite.

Dave, Aberdeen, Scotland

when you know nothing about Chinese history and China's plitical policy, you have no any right to criticise the lack of the so called human rights and freedom in China.

what have China done to the Tibetan people? China has conquered the adverse geographical conditions and spent a great amount of money buildiing railways for Tibetan people to help them develop the economy; China has try her best to afford the plitical position for the Tibetan people, for she knows Tibet is one part of China since hundreds of years ago, and Chinese government need to hear the voice from Tibetan people, then, respect it and absorb it if it is reasonable. so, what can we call this if it cannot be called freedom and human rights?

Nicole, nanjing , China

I am entirely in support of anyone, government official or otherwise, who will show any support of any degree to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people.

It's been brushed under the carpet for so long that it is disgusting and makes a mockery of all efforts to stamp out vagrant abuses of human rights the world over.

The fact that China won its bid for the Olympics is also disgusting, especially considering the rather upsetting tales of Mt Everest being bulldozed to provide part of the attractions.

I for one will be boycotting the Olympics, both in person and via television.

Li Bromfield, Lutterworth, UK

I have no idea of what the historical truth really is, in this case, Tibet. Neither do you.

When you start to comment on Tibet or even Taiwan issue or critisize the Chinese authority, you probably fail to look at where you stand, and just iterate the point of view of your government or press.

Truth is not what you hear, or what you presume, or what you are told/educated/instilled in, or sometimes not even what you see...

Yong, Beijing,

Outrageous. Chinese hypocrisy knows no bounds. Tibet is a conquered country whose national culture has been systematically dismembered and whose native population is swamped by a policy mass immigration.

In 1959 the International Commission for Jurists, based in Geneva, concluded that the Chinese were guilty of genocide “by the widespread killing of Buddhist monks and lammas”, and of violating most of the articles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, including use of torture, “Cruel and degrading treatment”, forced labour and denial of religious freedom.

Just remember that when the Beijing Olympics roll around.

Spencer, Stafford,

Of course the Chinese object to us meeting with Dalaia Lama.
The old commie flunkies are loosing grip on controlling China, knowing that the country is turning more and more capitalistic. They are very scared of any spiritual leader the way the Soviets were scared of the polish Pope and with a good reason.

Koni Kies, Fort Worth, TX

"This is brutal interference in China’s internal affairs,” Mr Zhang said at a meeting along the sidelines of the party’s 17th congress



What a bunch of hypocrites. What about China's "brutal interference" in the internal affairs of Tibet?

Liz, London,

get out of tibet.how would you like it it tibet was capable of systematically destroying your culture? falun gong anyone? control freaks only make more freedom fighters.

jim, bristol, avon

Maybe China should take a long hard look at its own policies of genocide before being "Outraged" at the most influential messenger of non violence in the world.
What China is doing in Tibet is an outrage.
What they have done to the Tibetan people is an outrage.
China's support of the brutal military dictatorship of Burma is a further outrage.
China's treatment of Taiwan is yet another outrage.
Maybe China's communist dictators should start some serious navel gazing of their own.

James Currie ,Yoga teacher, Marbella, Spain