{"id":244665,"date":"2024-07-19T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=244665"},"modified":"2024-07-19T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:49:10","slug":"biden-praised-over-law-enhancing-americas-support-for-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/biden-praised-over-law-enhancing-americas-support-for-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden praised over law enhancing America’s support for Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Lalit K Jha]<\/strong><\/p>\n

MILWAUKEE, 18 Jul:<\/strong> An influential American lawmaker has applauded President Joe Biden for signing into law a bill which enhances US support for Tibet and promotes dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama towards a peaceful resolution of the dispute over the status and governance of the remote Himalayan region.<\/p>\n

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul on Wednesday said that he is “extremely pleased” that President Biden has signed the Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act into law, “despite the administration’s failure to take a position on recognising any future Dalai Lama or implementing the Tibet Policy Act of 2002.”<\/p>\n

Last month, McCaul led a congressional delegation to India, sparking anger from China, to highlight the bipartisan support in the US Congress for Tibet, just days after the House-version of this bill passed the House.<\/p>\n

“The CCP will stop at nothing to undermine and erase Tibetan culture and strip the Tibetan people of their right to self-determination. It was my honour to lead a bipartisan delegation to India to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and affirm America’s unwavering commitment to Tibet,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We cannot let the CCP push its tyrannical agenda to wipe cultures off the map as it sees fit. I was proud to co-introduce this bipartisan bill that empowers Tibet and the international community to stand up for justice and peace,” McCaul said.<\/p>\n

In addition to reaffirming American support for the Tibetan peoples’ unique culture and right to self-determination, the legislation also enhances US support for Tibet by working to counter Chinese disinformation, and pushes for negotiations without preconditions between the CCP and Tibet to end their longstanding dispute.<\/p>\n

“My administration will continue to call on the People’s Republic of China to resume direct dialogue, without preconditions, with the Dalai Lama, or his representatives, to seek a settlement that resolves differences and leads to a negotiated agreement on Tibet,” Biden said last week in a statement after signing the bill into law.<\/p>\n

In June, China had opposed the bill.<\/p>\n

“Anyone or any force who attempts to destabilise Xizang to contain or suppress China will not succeed,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian had told reporters in Beijing.<\/p>\n

“The US should not sign the bill. China will take resolute measures to defend its sovereignty, security and development interests,” he said.<\/p>\n

The 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 and came to India, where he set up the government-in-exile in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n

From 2002 to 2010, the Dalai Lama’s representatives and the the Chinese government held nine rounds of dialogue that did not produce any concrete outcome.<\/p>\n

China views the 89-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, who is based in India, as a “separatist” who is working to split Tibet from the rest of the country. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Lalit K Jha] MILWAUKEE, 18 Jul: An influential American lawmaker has applauded President Joe Biden for signing into law a bill which enhances US support for Tibet and promotes dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama towards a peaceful resolution of the dispute over the status and governance of the remote Himalayan region. House Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}