China has criticized the Dalai Lama's "separatist activities" in Japan and alleged collusion with Japanese right-wing forces in a new attack on the Tibetan spiritual leader.

"Dalai's poor performance

China said on Monday that any successor chosen by the Dalai Lama would be 'illegal' after the Tibetan spiritual leader announced that he, and not Beijing, would decide whether he should be reincarnate

On a cross-country trip to sell his deficit reduction plan, President Barack Obama has focused on the growing competition from fast rising India, China and Brazil to warn that America's finances are '