China will not allow reincarnations without their permission. Can they do that?

A senior Tibetan lama and Chinese government advisers have defended contentious rules banning reincarnations of "living Buddhas" without approval.

The rules are apparently aimed at empowering China to name the next Dalai Lama when the 14th and current Dalai Lama dies.

Last July, China's State Administration of Religious Affairs issued regulations banning reincarnations of living Buddhas, or holy monks, who failed to seek government approval, ostensibly to manipulate the centuries-old practice and legitimise future appointments by the atheist Communist Party.

Damn! The Chinese government is strict!

I just have to wonder what they do if someone claims to be a reincarnated "Buddha"? Do they kill them and tell them to try again? This is just bizarre.