(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’20) – The United States on Jul 31 imposed sanctions on a Chinese company and two officials related to the company for human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minority people in Xinjiang, reported Reuters Jul 31, citing the Treasury Department. Three weeks earlier, Washington imposed sanctions on […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul14’20) – US lawmakers targeted by China with tit-for-tat sanctions over the latter’s Xinjiang repression have on Jul 13 responded with a mixture of ridicule and defiance, calling the punitive measures meaningless, reported the scmp.com Jul 14. And they have vowed to continue challenging Beijing over its human rights […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul10’20) – After announcing on Jul 7 visa ban on Chinese officials responsible for keeping Tibet a no-entry zone for foreign visitors that especially included diplomats, journalists, and individual tourists, the United states has on Jul 9 announced sanctions on three named Chinese leaders for their role in the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul09’20) – China said Jul 8 that it had decided to impose visa restrictions on US individuals with what it called “egregious conducts” on Tibet-related issues. The presumably tit-for-tat ban, however, does not make sense because the US ban, announced just the other day, was in response to China’s […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul08’20) – Acting under the mandate of the reciprocal access to Tibet Act (RATA) of 2018, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said Jul 7 that the Trump administration would impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials who block outsiders from visiting the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul08’20) – The United States has on Jul 7 formally notified the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of its intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), effective Jul 6, 2021, as the China-unleashed Covid-19 pandemic continues to tighten its grip on countries across the world with no […]

(TibetanReview.net, May26’20) – The story of China’s annexation of Tibet at the turn of the second half of the last century is far from closed and to make a point of it a bill has again been introduced in the US House of Representatives on May 19. Introduced by Representative […]

(TibetanReview.net, May22’20) – Following China’s suggestion May 19 that the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was not only alive but had now also passed the college entrance examination and had a job, the United States has on May 21 asked to meet with him to see the situation for […]

(TibetanReview.net, Apr22, 2018) – The US State Department has, in its latest Human Rights Report, released on Apr 20, referred to the pervasiveness of the repression in Tibet under Chinese rule, including with high levels of deployments of the paramilitary People’s Armed Police. The report highlights a number of other […]