Members of the US Congress call on the Dalai Lama to convene Bideni Politics News

Senators are pressuring U.S. President Kamala Harris or another high-ranking official to send India to see him if the aging spiritual leader cannot travel.

Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. Congress have called on President Joe Biden to meet with the Dalai Lama to ensure that Tibetan rights remain high on the agenda, even if there is more risk in troubled relations between Washington and Beijing.

George HW Bush since 1991, All U.S. presidents have known the Tibetan spiritual leader except Donald Trump now the 86-year-old Dalai Lama is slowing down his hectic travel schedule.

In similar letters, 38 senators and 27 members of the House also called on the U.S. to put pressure on China to resume talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama for the last 12 years.

“President Biden can demonstrate the importance of the moral message and example of His Holiness by inviting his Holiness to gather in the Oval Office,” the Senate letter said.

Attention to Tibet would be “a tangible expression of a principled foreign policy that prioritizes the pursuit of human rights and human dignity,” according to letters from Democrat Patrick Leahy and Republican Marco Rubio.

If the Dalai Lama could not travel, senators said Biden would have to send Vice President Kamala Harris or another senior official to see India, where he had lived since the 1959 Tibetan offensive in China to live in the Nobel Peace Prize.

China’s lack of interest in the dialogue has led many observers to believe that it is waiting for Beijing Dalai Lama, Believing that the global movement built for Tibet’s greatest rights will wither without the leadership of a Buddhist monk who has become a cultural icon.

U.S. lawmakers have urged the Biden administration to stress that China should not interfere in the re-election of the Dalai Lama, amid fears that the atheist government will officially seek to impose and shape a flexible heir.

The letters were addressed to Uzra Zeya, the undersecretary of state for civil society, democracy and human rights, prior to his appointment as coordinator of the Biden administration in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama did not visit Washington DC during the Trump presidency, and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted travel, limiting opportunities for a meeting.

But the friar was also clearly critical of the famous sensitive Trump, saying he lacked a “moral principle” from climate change to migrant rights.

John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, has become criticized, he said in a book Trump opposed Nikki Haley, then the U.S. ambassador, when he asked to meet with the Dalai Lama., Fearing it would jeopardize a trade deal with China.

Trump later became sharply critical of China.

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have stepped up their criticism of Beijing’s treatment of another minority, mostly Uighurs, Muslims, describing its campaign as genocide.