Sounding much like the US government, when it proclaims that freedom of religion and separation of church and state are fundamental American principles, but you can’t put that Satanic statue next to our Ten Commandments by the courthouse, dangit, the Chinese government has said once again that the Dalai Lama BETTER reincarnate, and in TIBET, like a nice government-sanctioned spiritual leader should. Using the kind of language we’re more used to hearing from the mouths of US Supreme Court figures when explaining how corporations are people, a Chinese government spokesman said “China follows a policy of freedom of religion and belief, and this naturally includes having to respect and protect the ways of passing on Tibetan Buddhism.”