Approved violence.
"Bombard the headquarters!" wrote Mao Zedong in his own big character poster at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. And the Chinese people obeyed. Surrounding Zhongnanhai, they forced President Liu Shaoqi to come out and pelted him to the ground with Little Red Books.
Liu's daughter, Tingting, went to Beijing to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. She was still Chinese, after all.
