Rep. Pelosi Meets With Exiled Tibetan Government in India as China’s Xi Visits Tibet

News Analysis NEW DELHI—A seven-member congressional delegation from the United States, led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), visited Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, on June 18. On the same day, Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited the Tibetan Buddhist community in Qinghai, a province traditionally called Amdo by Tibetans. A Tibetan expert called the timing and manner of both visits highly symbolic. The Himalayan town of Dharamshala has served as the seat of the Tibetan government in exile since 1960. The U.S. delegation met with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, on Wednesday, and later addressed a gathering of Tibetan exiles, including children from Tibetan schools. Meanwhile, Xi visited the ancient Hongjue Temple in Tibet’s northwestern province of Qinghai, according to a report from Chinese state media Xinhua....