The International Campaign for Tibet welcomes Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement of March 31 imposing additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in denying visit to Tibet for Americans.
“We commend the Trump administration for asserting that China’s failure to adhere to the principle of reciprocity is ‘unacceptable’ and will not be tolerated,” said ICT President Tencho Gyatso. “This law was designed to challenge China’s restrictions on access to Tibet, and we hope that the United States will continue to make effective use of it until China stops trying to isolate the Land of Snows.”
Onerous restrictionsTibetan Americans have taken the brunt of China’s discriminatory policy for travel which impacts not just the Tibet Autonomous Region, but also to all other Tibetan areas incorporated in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan, as recognized by the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act.
Pursuing access to Tibet for Americans does not constit...





