China imposes visa restrictions on US personnel over Tibet

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has announced visa restrictions connected immoderate U.S. unit who person "behaved badly" connected Tibet-related issues, its overseas ministry said connected Monday.

The announcement astatine a regular property league came aft Washington imposed further visa restrictions 2 weeks agone connected Chinese officials progressive successful policies governing foreigners' entree to Tibetan areas.

The U.S. accused the Chinese Communist Party of refusing to spend U.S. diplomats, journalists, and different planetary observers entree to Tibet and different Tibetan areas of China, and demanded "unrestricted access" to the areas for U.S. diplomats and others.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said Tibet-related issues were China's "internal affairs" and the "U.S. maltreatment of visa restrictions connected Chinese officials" implicit Tibet "seriously violates planetary instrumentality and basal norms governing planetary relations".

Foreign tourists are allowed to sojourn the acold occidental portion of Tibet providing they question successful groups and get a licence successful advance. Diplomats and overseas journalists request to get the support of Tibet's section authorities to spell there.

"Tibet is open. China welcomes affable radical from different countries to visit, question and bash concern successful Tibet," Lin told reporters.

"But China opposes the interference of immoderate state oregon idiosyncratic successful Tibetan affairs nether the pretext of alleged quality rights, religion and culture," helium added.

China seized power of Tibet successful 1950 successful what it describes arsenic a "peaceful liberation" from feudalistic serfdom.

International quality rights groups and exiles, however, person routinely condemned what they telephone China's oppressive regularisation successful Tibetan areas.

(Reporting by Xiuhao Chen, Liz Lee and Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Kate Mayberry)