About 8 years ago I spent a week with the Dalai Lama learning his religion and philosophies. The large crowd of anti Dalai Lama protesters were there screaming and chanting with their protest signs then as well.
China has been doing this ever since the Dalai Lama came to the USA. It’s nothing new.
What is amazing is that there are Free Tibet bumper stickers all over Boulder, Colorado and the Univ. of Co. Boulder is staunchly communist. I guess the CU people are too far away from California to be hating the Dalai Lama. I guess it will only be a matter of time before the Boulderites turn against Free Tibet. Cancer spreads.