It’s taken years of rare bipartisan cooperation, but now the US has quietly taken a step that threatens consequences for China’s actions in Tibet. The policy change was buried in the $900 billion spending bill President Donald Trump signed last month. It says that if Chinese Communist Party officials try to interfere with the reincarnation process of the Dalai Lama, the US will impose economic and visa sanctions. The World’s Rupa Shenoy explains.
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