Posted on 03/01/2017 4:34:53 PM PST by ifinnegan
In actuality it seems it is more an issue of the Foggy Bottom swamp.
This seems key:
"The ten-day trip would have seen the Tibetan team lead the opening day parade into the Cotton Bowl stadium carrying the Tibetan flag, and the honour of being the first sports team to represent Tibet on US soil,”
My guess is there are swamp denizens in the diplomatic core who will not allow that to happen because the Chinese Communists would be against it.
If this had happened in December there would not be ONE word about it.
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There is much more to this story.
The President has not heard about this. He will probably personally fly them over in the Trump jumbo jet and defy his bureaucrats to stop him.
Go President Trump.
Yep.
Trump actually should intervene, but I think Tillerson is a status quo guy.
Note to Tillerson - intervene against your Chicom loving bureaucrats.
“The President has not heard about this. He will probably personally fly them over in the Trump jumbo jet and defy his bureaucrats to stop him.
Go President Trump.”
That would be awesome!
“There is much more to this story.”
Go on...
Kinda like if the Taiwanese Ladies Bowling champions were invited to bowl in some big tournament. It probably wouldn’t be considered very “diplomatic.”
We owe China trillions of dollars.
We owe no debt to Tibet.
I agree.
Poor like dirt Tibetan beggars living off international welfare vs Commies running on capitalist fumes. Hmm
Yep, its a lock that we won’t offend our Chinese money masters. But hey, we sure raught Cuba a lesson, because you know, were anti-Communist.
Sounds like bureaucrats being bureaucrats...
More here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/tibet-womens-soccer-visas-denied
Hope they get their visas.
Interesting they see nothing amiss in declaring they want the trip, NOT to visit the USA, but to promote their team. Gee what a nice compliment.
Of course they blame Trump. Why aren’t they blaming the three and a half million active islamic terrorists that have forced Trump to take the action to try to figure out q way to keep business moving as usual but stopping people we don’t want in here that kill arbitrarily. If we had to review everyone that came in, they’d have to check everyone one at a time to keep it consistent. Don’t have the time, the personnel, or the money.
And why aren’t the people that are running the event willing to postpone it until the plan is in place to protect not only our people, but our visitors also?
red
The obama legacy State Department: kiss up to moslems, cower before the Chinese.
No surprises here.
So they were to be there as guests...but not participants in the sport?
I suspect your guess is right on the money.
Suppose, when they get here, they ask for asylum?
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