WASHINGTON: Unloading on China’s leader Xi Jinping and his Communist Party for their relentless expansionism and revisionism in the region while commending India for “doing its best” to respond to Beijing's “incredibly aggressive actions” on the border, the United States on Wednesday pledged to bring the world’s democracies together to meet the hegemonic Chinese challenge.The Trump administration also imposed another layer of sanctions on Beijing on Tuesday, announcing visa restrictions for a certain group of Chinese officials under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act.Beijing has continued systematically to obstruct travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas by US diplomats and other officials, journalists, and tourists, while Chinese officials and other citizens enjoy far greater access to the United States, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, while announcing restrictions on Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party officials determined to be “substantially involved in the formulation or execution of policies related to access for foreigners to Tibetan areas.Disclosing that he had spoken to India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar “a number of times” about the India-China situation, Pompeo said at a State Department interaction that the issue has to be seen in the larger context of the number of maritime and boundary disputes the Chinese communist party was engaged in.Complete coverage: India-China stand-off“The Chinese took incredibly aggressive action ... the Indians have done their best to respond to that… there aren't many neighbors that can satisfactorily say that they know where their sovereignty ends and that the Chinese Communist Party will respect that sovereignty. That's certainly true now for the people of Bhutan as well,” Pompeo said, referring also the latest spurious claim by Beijing over Bhutanese territory that is not even contiguous to China.Pompeo said the world must come together to respond t ..
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