Dear John,

Because of you, Chinese officials who keep Tibet isolated from the world have finally been held accountable.

Today, the State Department announced that Chinese officials responsible for keeping Americans out of Tibet were banned from entering the US under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act (RATA), the groundbreaking legislation you helped make law at the end of 2018.

At the behest of the Chinese government, those individuals have kept for years American journalists, diplomats and ordinary citizens out of Tibet so that they can continue to oppress innocent Tibetans in secret. Now, those Government and Communist Party officials can no longer set foot in the US—unless China changes its policies and gives Americans just, unfettered and reciprocal access to Tibet, as Chinese citizens have to the US.

RATA was the most important Tibet-related legislation in more than a decade, and it overcame years of Congressional debate and negotiation—as well as a shady opposition campaign by the Chinese government—thanks to your advocacy with Members of Congress and your support of ICT. This legislation has teeth, and we will continue to advocate for its full implementation, pressuring the Chinese government to reverse its course and open Tibet to the world, which is our ultimate goal.

As one of our members, you know we still have much to do. You know China won’t end its 60 years of oppression in Tibet overnight. And you know we’ll have to work just as hard as we did on RATA to make sure Congress passes the Tibetan Policy and Support Act this year.

But today’s news proves your support for Tibet does make a real difference. Today, the era of China isolating Tibet without consequences officially came to an end. And now, we’ll get right back to work, together, until one day we achieve freedom and justice for the Tibetan people.

Tomorrow, July 8, at 1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDT I will be discussing live about today’s US decision and its importance for the Tibet movement. You can join me on our website at www.savetibet.org/live or live on our Facebook page.

In gratitude,

Matteo Mecacci
President

P.S. You helped get RATA passed and implemented. Now, you can help advance our new legislative goals for Tibet by donating to ICT.