China vows to strengthen 'patriotic education' campaign as continuing protests turn violent

Sunday 06th April, 01:54 AM JST

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Betzee at 01:53 PM JST - 6th April

In apportioning blame, the [Chinese] government has largely ignored the Tibetan people's underlying economic, religious and cultural grievances. Instead it has fallen back on a handful of timeworn narratives: that the vast majority of Tibetans were led astray by a few foreign agents; that the West is biased; that outsiders are trying to keep China down; and that the "splittist" Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, is intent on wrecking the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"There's been such vitriol," said Michael Curtis Davis, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "They've accused the Dalai Lama of everything on Earth."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tibet6apr06,0,7365677.story

What a surprise!
notimpressed at 02:40 PM JST - 6th April

This is ridiculous and terrible. CCP has no idea about the standards they violate, and then cry media bias. How can here be a media bias when the media is banned? If they want truthful reporting why keep out the press..? Everything they do just paints them in a worse light, and every statement they make is so transparent. Who do they think they are fooling? How is it fair or just to require someone to denounce thier religeous leader? If it wasnt so serious I would be laughing at every statement put out by the CCP.
Kwaabish at 10:25 PM JST - 6th April

Probably, according to the CCP, the Dalai Lama is to blame for the extinction of the dinosaurs...

You gotta love the efforts that the CCP places into mind control, propaganda and censorship.
Betzee at 10:43 PM JST - 6th April

Who do they think they are fooling?

These views, in fact, are strongly supported by the Chinese people who agree with their government that Western media bias is aggravating the situation. I had to chuckle; it's been a common complaint here too with respect to coverage of Iraq. The same conspiracy mentality is evident.

As for China Nick Kristof, who was based in Beijing for the NYT's during the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, observed in his recent column: It would be convenient if we could simply denounce the crackdown in Tibet as the unpopular action of a dictatorial government. But it wasn’t. It was the popular action of a dictatorial government, and many ordinary Chinese think the government acted too wimpishly, showing far too much restraint toward “thugs” and “rioters.”

China and the U.S. clash partly because of competing interests, but mostly because of competing narratives. To Americans, Tibet fits neatly into a framework of human rights and colonialism. To Chinese, steeped in education of 150 years of “guochi,” or national humiliations by foreigners, the current episode is one more effort by imperialistic and condescending foreigners to tear China apart or hold it back....