Metropolitan and U.S. Park Police reported no serious incidents and no arrests related to yesterday's many demonstrations.
"So far it's all been quiet ' a shift supervisor said last night. "Just a lot of noise."
And the "noise" was created by protectors from around the world.
"We have our democratic struggle in Burma," said Rockville resident Ohmar Khin, 30, a staffer for the advocacy group Refugees International. "We want to show our support for all our neighboring countries struggling for democracy and human rights."
At the east side of the Capitol, about 30 supporters of Eastern Turkistan held protests, while in the afternoon Taiwan activists chanted at the west side of the Capitol as members of Congress gave short speeches of support.
Tibetan monk Pema Dorje, 45, from New York, sat on the grass at Lafayette Park holding a Tibetan flag and a "Save Tibet" sign. Before the Communists took over, Tibet and the Chinese government had good relations, he said.
He said all the demonstrations sought one goal: "We want to live peacefully."
In the late afternoon, about 100 Taiwanese-Americans got off tour buses at the Chinese Embassy on Connecticut Avenue to protest the Chinese intervention in Taiwan.
At one point in the two-hour protest, the crowd broke into song.
"They're singing 'The Taiwanese Spirit" said Echo Lin, director of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs.
"We are very determined to overcome all the obstacles. We'll keep going forward until we achieve our goal," she said, translating the protest song.
Larry Chen, 49, rode with other Taiwanese-Americans from Marlboro, N.J. to voice his anger.
"The island people would like to have their sovereignty to be a democratic and free country," he said while holding a yellow and red sign that said "Stop Chinese Aggression." "We are not afraid of them. It is the Chinese government that is afraid of us. They are note used to free demonstrations."
Gerald Mizejewski contributed to this report.