U.S. CONGRESS BILL ON TIBET IS A SURGICAL STRIKE ON ONE CHINA POLICY

With the formal nod of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee the current bill is bound to be passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden to make ita law in near future.

- VIJAY KRANTI

As China’s military and economic might has started eating into and challenging the status and powers of United States of America as the sole unchallengeable superpower of the world, the resolve of US policy and strategy makers at the Capitol Hill in Washington too seems to have started shifting gears. Abandoning the US’ approach of cooperative and profit sharing accommodation with Beijing it has started not only standing up to President Xi Jinping’s bullying but also hitting his communist regime where it hurts most. On 16 April the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee put its stamp of approval on a Tibet related bipartisan Bill (HR-533) which was passed two months ago on 15 February by the House of Representatives with a near unanimous and thunderous majority (392 to 28) .