A press release from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said Lobsang Sangay, President of the CTA was invited to the White House to meet the newly appointed U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, Robert Destro, on Friday. “This unprecedented meeting perhaps will set an optimistic tone for CTA participation with U.S. officials and be more formalised in the coming years,” said the CTA, which is based in India’s Dharamshala.
The two biggest economies of the world United States and China often cross over themselves in regards with Tibetan issues. Tibet has become one of the areas of dispute between them at their lowest point. In the month of July, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Beijing of violating Tibetan human rights and said Washington supported “meaningful autonomy” for the region. On the other side, Beijing officials have since accused the United States of using Tibet to try to promote “splittism” in China. China has also refused to engage with Destro.
China seized control over Tibet in 1950 through what it described as a “peaceful liberation” that helped it throw off its “feudalist past”, but critics led by the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama say Beijing’s rule amounts to “cultural genocide”. In the month of August, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China needed to build an “impregnable fortress” in Tibet in order to protect national unity.
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