Back to the glorious Cultural Revolution?

More evidence of the sad communication-gap...
From Agam's Blog

Shrill, Cultural Revolution-style denunciations are the order of the day when it comes to official PRC statements regarding Dalai Lama. He is the "cat's paw of international anti-China forces". Protesting monks are the "scum of Buddhism". And foreign critics have a "dark and despicable mentality".

Kellee Tsai, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University says ordinary Chinese are "so thoroughly socialized by this idea," that any challenge triggers highly emotional reactions.
Such perceptions, Tsai said, extend to both ordinary citizens and well-educated intellectuals and officials, who may have been exposed to alternative viewpoints.
In an example of the depth of feeling, Tsai said a graduate student of hers received threats and insults from Chinese graduate students overseas after circulating an open letter from dissidents calling on Beijing to open talks with the Dalai Lama...
"Those who suggest that China might tone down its rhetoric or relax media controls are also likely to be viewed as being overly influenced by Western ideas, sympathetic to secessionist forces, and perhaps even unpatriotic," Tsai said.