Its all in the definition of success. One's success is another's disaster.

He was just trying to cover his ass. He is part of this failed "education" and should be fired.

If the priests in your country don't love your country, is that so called success?
If those violent monks should not be patriotic, they also should not love Tibet (bcz in there eyes, Tibet is a "country"). They just need to love the whole world!

PS: Hi Michael, I grow up in Korla. Now I'm in UK. It is interesting that I find this blog.

Eventsin Qinghai and High Sichuan not given much coverage amid all the commotion. Golok protests. Death in ngaba.

http://www.tchrd.org/

I think that the education has been a tremendous success. The monks have proven to be very patriotic, and are active in trying to drive away the foreign invaders.

The above is a joke, and should be treated as such.

I don't want to destroy everybody's good mood here, but I think there is some truth in the piece. Presently there is much less trouble in TAR than in the surrounding provinces, which have previously been hailed as much, much, more "liberal" in handling local Tibetans.

I thought the last paragraph would:

The policy of reeducation has been so successful that it's architects have been allowed follow their lifelong dream of working in a coal mine shoulder to shoulder with their comrades.

呼唤zhang，快出来叫两声

I am thoroughly confused. Patriotic education is NOT political? Being patriotic has to do with finances of monks and nuns? I better stop thinking about this before my head explodes.

@ China-Matt

Chinese Patriotic education = Stop Thinking

You've been brainwashed too :D

Crimethink doubleplusungood.

American democracy=just thinking for yourself

That's... spectacular. I always wonder, who believes this sh*t? Only a rare Han I meet actually has faith in things like "patriotic education", and they're usually the ones whose jobs depend on such things seeming successful. Is it really necessary -- and I say this as a blogger -- to produce such a tremendous amount of superficial claptrap? Do they really believe that anyone interested enough in China to be reading Xinhua isn't going to know to read between the lines?

This topic seems to be on the minds of a few bloggers today. Over at Shanghai Scrap, there's a post on the history of patriotic religious education. Unusually throughful for a Shanghai-based blog (no commentary on where to get drunk this weekend). The page is here:

http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=640

Xinhua says all kinds of things, rarely are they truthful or completely truthful, esp. on Tibet. Xinhua reporters don't do investigative reporting & rarely leave their newsroom, instead they report from circulars & memos from the Central Propaganda Dept. or crop things from non-Chinese news sources that they find acceptable. Of course, all written pieces have to pass the censors first. Also, Xinhua reporters are paid by the word, so maybe that's why some of their reports have that strangely stilted language like "resolutely commit to the Party line with reinforced enthusiasm, etc."

We know Tibetan monks & nuns are forced to take patriotic tests, which China admits occurs. But how can one force patriotism? You have to earn it. If you force people to be loyal, then the loyalty they display will be fake & you'll lose it the moment the people are free to do what they want. If the Dalai Lama doesn't have much influence in Tibet anymore, as Party leaders often say, then why are they forcing monks & nuns to denounce him? This is still leftover from the Cultural Revolution when everybody had to praise Mao & denounce capitalist roadsters.

文化种族灭绝政策下的藏语文教育/博扎瓦
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp/2008/03/200803251045.shtml

内斗严重 中共处理西藏血案前后错乱(组图)
喉舌新华网头条文章漏马脚 图片涉嫌“出口转内销” 无法自圆
http://www.kanzhongguo.com/news/237754.html

Tibet Open Letter
A Statement by Concerned Tibetan Studies Scholars on the Current Crisis in Tibet
http://www.tibetopenletter.org/

350位各国藏学家和学者致胡锦涛主席的公开信
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/intl/2008/03/200803301152.shtml

内斗严重 中共处理西藏血案前后错乱(组图)
喉舌新华网头条文章漏马脚 图片涉嫌“出口转内销” 无法自圆
http://www.kanzhongguo.com/news/237754.html

I dont know how much they paid you, Mr.Li to do this insane propaganda.

It would be like saying 911 is a conspiracy planned by Bush in order to invade Afganistan and Iraq.

The Chinese love a bit of propoganda... Glorious leader tells the good people of China that their all frogs, that morning I go to work and find my co-workers hopping from workstation to workstation... then get sniggered at and called ignorant and cultureless for walking on two legs.

Were Violent Tibetan Monks....Chinese Soldiers?
http://www.tibetcustom.com/article.php/20080328193918219
clipping:
It now appears that much of the serious violence was in fact stage managed with Han Chinese dressed up as Monks and Tibetans playing roles in a massive attempt to undermine support for the Tibetan cause both inside and outside Tibet.

Did Chinese troops dress up in Monks Robes ? People have met "Monks" who speak no Tibetan and others have met "Tibetans" who turn out to be Han Police.

image:
http://www.tibetcustom.com/images/library/Image/Origins%20of%20violent%20monks.jpg

I feel the Chinese government is much more humane than the American government. After the 911, you saw American flags everywhere. But the American patriotic education was followed by justified wars and a large media campaingn against muslim. The Chinese government only uses patriotic education to stablize society and reinforce ethnical consolidarity.
I can't tell the difference between riots in Tibet and the 1967 Detroit riot and 1992 LA riot. But I can tell how the two governments adopt different post-riots strategies.

@li, how do you know that these violent Tibetan monks couldn't afford the uniform of Chinese troop?

YouTube
Did the Chinese army stage the Tibetan riots?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0llXI9cXqo

This is solid evidence of your west media's bias
and incrupulous faking of evidence.

The pic of so called soldiers are in police's uniform in a movie cast called Legend of Tian Mai.

The style of uniform is for summer wear and this
uniform was out of service by 2005.

No soldiers or police on the so alleged mission would allow you to take such a leasurely postured pic.

The person using such a pic for evidence is ultra low IQ. Trying to demonize China with a mind driven to a state of insanity.

http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/mil/68115954.html