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"The United States will impose visa sanctions on Chinese officials pursuing
“forced assimilation” of children in Tibet, where UN experts say one million
children have been separated from their families.
Secretary of state Antony Blinken said the US would restrict visas to Chinese
officials behind the policy of state boarding schools, in the latest in a
series of US moves on Beijing that comes despite a resumption of high-level
dialogue.
“These coercive policies seek to eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic,
cultural and religious traditions among younger generations of Tibetans,”
Blinken said in a statement.
“We urge PRC [People’s Republic of China] authorities to end the coercion of
Tibetan children into government-run boarding schools and to cease repressive
assimilation policies, both in Tibet and throughout other parts of the PRC,” he
said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
A state department spokesperson said the new restrictions would apply to
current and former officials involved in education policy in Tibet but did not
give further details, citing US confidentiality laws on visa records.
The US separately imposed sanctions in December on two top-ranking Chinese
officials, Wu Yingjie and Zhang Hongbo, over what Washington said were
widespread human rights violations in Tibet.
Blinken in his statement cited a figure given in February by three UN experts
who said that around one million Tibetan children have been forcibly removed
into boarding schools.
The program appears aimed at unwillingly integrating Tibetans into China’s
majority Han culture, with compulsory education in Mandarin and no instruction
culturally relevant to the Buddhist-majority Himalayan region, the special
rapporteurs said."
Cheers,
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