Beijing has not responded to American requests to set up a consulate in the regional capital Lhasa. FMTNews
Pompeo says the restrictions fall under a new US law that presses China to let Americans visit Tibet.
“Unfortunately, Beijing has continued systematically to obstruct travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas by US diplomats and other officials, journalists and tourists, while PRC officials and other citizens enjoy far greater access to the US,” Pompeo said in a statement. Amid high tension with China, the US has increasingly been issuing such visa sanctions, earlier taking action over Beijing’s clampdown on free expression in Hong Kong and its ongoing incarceration of some one million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Beijing has largely barred foreign journalists from visiting Tibet since 2008, when the region saw a wave of self-immolations as protests, and has not responded to US requests to set up a consulate in the regional capital Lhasa. The campaign said it saw momentum, pointing to a recent joint call by 57 European parliamentarians from 19 countries to set up their own version of the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act.“China’s oppression of the Tibetan people won’t stop tomorrow even with this law’s implementation,” Mecacci said.
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