The Dalai Lama Says Chinese Communist Party Should ‘Retire with Grace’

From the Talk Radio News Service:

The Dalai Lama stated Friday that China’s communist party should “retire with grace” due to its lack of support and solid ideology.

The Tibetan religious figure’s remarks came after meeting with President Barack Obama Thursday at the White House, during a trip to the Library of Congress Friday for the Democracy Service Medal presented by The National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

[In] any country, the real change must come to people, to individual creativity,” said the Dalai Lama. “[Under] the totalitarian system, without freedom, that opportunity to utilize individual creativity stops.”…The Dalai Lama explained that he views elections as an important symbol of democracy since “that gives people have some sort of power to control to change, and that also give them some kind of sense of responsibility and involvement.”

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