Things are going downhill here, and fast.
BEIJING—Soldiers and police tightened their hold on Tibetan areas Wednesday in a clampdown on scattered protests against the Beijing government, which insisted that the unrest would not deter plans to take the Olympic torch to the top of Mount Everest.
Chinese officials launched new broadsides at the Dalai Lama Wednesday, describing Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader as a "wolf" and "devil."