Security tightened after Chinese embassy wall spray painted

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US authorities tightened security on Monday around the Chinese embassy a day after its front wall was splashed with red paint and its glass windows smashed.

Several police cars and personnel were seen in front of the embassy most of Monday as demonstrations against Beijing's crackdown in Tibet persisted at the site for the fourth day running.

Wang Baodong, spokesman for the Chinese embassy, charged that pro-independence Tibetan activists spray painted the embassy wall and pelted stones at its windows, smashing the glass panes, on Sunday.

"Such violent acts are not peaceful and aimed at pressuring the Chinese government to yield to their objectives of realizing Tibetan independence," Wang told AFP.

"These acts should be condemned....