Washington, March 11 (IANS) A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to make Tibet a priority in its foreign policy, pressing the State Department to advance dialogue on the region’s future, defend religious freedom in the Dalai Lama’s succession, and counter Chinese disinformation about Tibet.In a letter to Riley M. Barnes, the US State Department’s Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, the lawmakers said Washington should strengthen efforts to implement exi…
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Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) A bipartisan group of senior U.S. lawmakers has urged Taiwan’s leadership to significantly increase defence spending, warning that partial funding of a supplementary defence budget could weaken efforts to deter PRC “aggression”. U.S. Senators Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pete Ricketts, and Chris Coons, along with Representatives Young Kim and Ami Bera, led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the leadership of Taiwan’s Legislati…