China has dismissed the Dalai Lama as “deceptive” after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader criticized some Beijing leaders in an interview with British comedian John Oliver.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” talk show that aired Sunday night in the U.S. was for entertainment purposes. Geng said the Dalai Lama’s comments about the contested issue of his reincarnation “appear to be funny and humorous but they’re all lies.”
The Dalai Lama told Oliver that Chinese hard-liners lacked common sense and “part of the brain.”
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