WASHINGTON: Discharging on China’s leader Xi Jinping and his Communist Party for their ruthless expansionism and revisionism in the region while applauding India for “doing its finest” to react to
Beijing
‘s “extremely aggressive actions” on the border, the United States on Wednesday vowed to bring the world’s democracies together to fulfill the hegemonic Chinese challenge.
The Trump administration also enforced another layer of sanctions on Beijing on Tuesday, announcing visa restrictions for a specific group of Chinese officials under the Reciprocal Access to
Tibet
Act.
Beijing has continued systematically to obstruct travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Area (TAR) and other Tibetan locations by United States diplomats and other officials, reporters, and tourists, while Chinese authorities and other residents delight in far greater access to the United States, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated, while announcing restrictions on Chinese federal government and Chinese Communist Party officials determined to be “subst