Why Do They Hate Us? German Politicians Criticize Secretary Oinkubus

How could this be? I thought that only President Bush could do things that angered foreigners? Von Der Spiegel:

German conservatives are angered by statements from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placing what appear to be limits for Washington's support of Tibet, Taiwan and human rights in its ties with Beijing.

Prominent politicians in the conservative camp of German Chancellor Angela Merkel are upset by statements made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her trip to China last week. During her Asia sojourn, Clinton said efforts to press China on issues like Taiwan, Tibet and human rights "can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis."
Instead Clinton, who visited China from Feb. 20-22, sought out fresh Chinese loans for the deeply-indebted American government. "This is very questionable," said Günter Nooke of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party. "We should dampen our enthusiasm for the new American foreign policy."

Quite right, Hillary. We can't allow some mundane issue like human rights get in the way of addressing climate change!