
US House Representative Scott Perry [R-PA] introduces a bill to recognize the “Tibet Autonomous Region as a separate, independent country”. Photo/Scott Perry Official Archives
The bill was introduced and referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, 19 May.
As of now, the text of the bill has not been received.
Rep Scott Perry was among the 32 members of Congress who signed the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission’s bipartisan letter to the US Secretary of State in May 2019 urging the Trump Administration to promptly implement key legislations—Tibet Policy Act of 2002 and the 2018 Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act—passed by Congress to guide United States policy on Tibet.