{"id":70679,"date":"2025-04-14T20:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70679"},"modified":"2025-04-14T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:58:02","slug":"china-enforces-visa-restrictions-on-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/china-enforces-visa-restrictions-on-us-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"China enforces visa restrictions on US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-excludes-china\/\">China<\/a> has announced visa restrictions on some US officials who have \u201cmisbehaved\u201d on Tibet-related matters.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement at a regular press conference came two weeks after Washington imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in policies controlling access to Tibetan areas by foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The US accused the Chinese Communist Party of denying <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-excludes-china\/\">US diplomats<\/a>, journalists and other international observers access to Tibet and other Tibetan areas in China and demanded \u201cunrestricted access\u201d to these areas for US diplomats and others.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that Tibet-related issues were China\u2019s \u201cinternal affairs\u201d and that \u201cthe US\u2019s misuse of visa restrictions on Chinese officials\u201d on Tibet was a serious violation of international law and the basic principles governing international relations.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign tourists are allowed to visit Tibet&#8217;s westernmost region, provided they travel in groups and obtain prior permits. Diplomats and foreign journalists must seek approval from local Tibetan authorities to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Lin told reporters that &#8220;Tibet is open. China welcomes friendly people from other countries to come, travel and do business in Tibet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But China opposes any country or person interfering in Tibetan affairs under the pretext of so-called human rights, religion and culture,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>China occupied Tibet in 1950 in what it describes as a &#8220;peaceful liberation&#8221; from feudal slavery.<\/p>\n<p>However, international human rights groups and exiles have routinely condemned China&#8217;s oppressive rule in Tibetan areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday that China has announced visa restrictions on some US officials who have \u201cmisbehaved\u201d on Tibet-related matters. The announcement at a regular press conference came two weeks after Washington imposed additional visa restrictions on Chinese officials involved in policies controlling access to Tibetan areas by foreigners. The US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[470,27828],"class_list":["post-70679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china","tag-us-diplomats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70681,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70679\/revisions\/70681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}