For over six decades, the United States has been one of the staunchest friends of the Tibetan people in their struggle to protect their religion and culture against the repressive policies of the People’s Republic of China. There has always been broad bipartisan agreement that the Tibetan people deserve self-determination, democracy, and the right to religious and cultural freedom.
The aid that the United States has provided to the Tibetans, while miniscule in the scale of US foreign assistance, has played a crucial role. This is why the reductions in foreign assistance and freezing other international support programs, including the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are already having a severe impact on Tibetan society, both inside Tibet and in exile communities in India and Nepal.
In response, the International Campaign for Tibet has been working around the clock in coordination with the Office of Tibet in Washington, DC, to meet with Congressional and Administration officials—and to remind them about the importance of Tibet and the statutory requirement to help the Tibetan people.
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this certainly isn't the first time the inevitable seemed imminent…