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Washington DC: The United States State Department's Office of Policy Planning released a 72-page report, titled “The Elements of the China Challenge,” for how the US has responded and should respond to China’s ongoing authoritarianism. The report devotes space to the discussion of repression of ethnic and religious minorities in China. More

Exclusive: U.S Special Coordinator for Robert A. Destro Speaks to Tibet TV “While they (China) have the rights to criticise the meeting, we have the rights to have whatever meetings we want” United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Robert A. Destro talks tough on meeting the Tibetan President Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay. More

Washington DC: Today marks the historic date when Sikyong (President) Dr. Lobsang Sangay of the Central Tibetan Administration entered the United States Harry S. Truman building in Washington DC. This is the first time the CTA Sikyong was formally invited to the State Department for meetings, which marks a momentous progress between Tibet-US relations. Democratically elected President Dr. More

Dharamshala: Exactly a month after the US Secretary of State announced visa sanctions on the Chinese government and political leaders for restricting journalists, tourists, diplomats or other American officials from accessing autonomous regions in Tibet, US State Department released its second annual report to US Congress on access to Tibet in 2019. More

Washington DC: The United States government released its annual International Religious Freedom Report, a report that covers repressive government policies that infringe upon religious freedom. More

Washington DC: Impressive crowd of over hundred people comprising of Tibetan Americans, diplomats, State Department officials, staff from Office of Tibet and International Campaign for Tibet, representative from Capital Area Tibetan Association and Tibetan media staff from Radio Free Asia and Voice of America attended the Tibetan Losar Celebration at the State Department hosted by The Office of th More

DHARAMSALA: The US State Department issued a statement to commemorate the 29th birthday of the Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who has been missing since the age of six. He was abducted by the Chinese government along with his family in 1995 after he was recognized as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. More

Dharamshala: Last weekend, the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) in Washington DC released its annual report on the status of global human rights. The country reports evaluate the fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, and the global state of human rights in the past year. More