Urgent Petition: Call on President Biden to Raise Tibet in Talks with Xi Jinping

In just two short weeks President Biden meets with President Xi Jinping of China. And you can help ensure Tibet is on the table.

Sign our petition calling on President Biden to raise Tibet and forcefully ask Xi Jinping to resume negotiations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Dialogue between Tibet and China could bring a peaceful solution that allows Tibetans to live in freedom. But China has failed to live up to its responsibility to engage. It has stalled negotiations since 2010, and in the interim, the oppression of Tibetans has only intensified.

Our community of compassion must band together to show the strength of our support for the Tibetan cause. Biden’s meeting with Xi is coming soon—so add your name now and call on our leaders to join us in taking a stand for Tibet!

To: President Joe Biden

The United States of America

Dear President Biden,

I am a staunch supporter of the Tibetan people, and I am deeply troubled by the Chinese government’s brutality in Tibet. I hope you will take every opportunity in your meeting with the Chinese leadership to speak out publicly and engage substantively about Tibet. I urge you to forcefully condemn the human rights violations taking place in occupied Tibet and stress the need for Beijing to return to dialogue to resolve the Tibet-China dispute. Your upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping provides an ideal platform to do just that.
 
US law demands that the United States press for a negotiated resolution to the Tibet-China conflict through dialogue. The last 10 years under Xi Jinping’s rule have been a relentless drive to securitize Tibet and Sinify the Tibetan people in the Chinese nation-state as part of Xi’s long-term assimilationist drive. Ethics demand that China be held accountable for the gross human rights violations the Xi Jinping regime is inflicting on the Tibetan people, including torture, forced disappearances, religious persecution and the unconscionable separation of Tibetan children from their families, religion, culture and mother tongue. Beijing has put in place a surveillance system that has turned Tibet into an open-air prison, and the long arm of China uses sophisticated tactics to silence pro-Tibet voices around the world including here in the United States.
  
It is hard to view the Chinese government’s agenda as anything other than the eradication of Tibetan civilization. But the peace-loving, resilient spirit of the Tibetan people continues to inspire us, and they need our support.

Thus, closed-door meetings and assurances are not enough. The stakes are too high. It is imperative that you speak publicly and specifically before, during and after the meeting with President Xi to call for a resolution to the Tibet-China dispute, an immediate end to the atrocities and an urgent return to the negotiating table that Beijing abandoned more than 10 years ago.
   
Doing so will provide a light of hope to the 6 million Tibetans still suffering under harsh CCP oppression and reinforce that the United States will stand up for the people of Tibet.

Again, I hope you will use this important opportunity to express clearly to the Chinese government and to the world that the United States will never give up on Tibetans and will consistently raise its voice to push for a negotiated resolution to this issue.

Sincerely,

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