Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

The administration of US President Donald Trump has told Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) “we don’t want any coercion, but we want [the Taiwan dispute] resolved peacefully,” US ambassador to China David Perdue said in a TV interview on Thursday.

Trump “has said very clearly, we are not changing the ‘one China’ policy, we are going to adhere to the Taiwan Relations Act, the three communiques and the ‘six assurances’ that were done under [former US president Ronald] Reagan,” Perdue told Joe Kernen, cohost of CNBC’s Squawk Box.

The act, the Three Joint Communiques and the “six assurances” are guidelines for Washington in dealing with its unofficial relationship with Taipei under its “one China” policy.

For decades, the Tibetan services of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) served as lifelines — beacons of truth, piercing the fog of censorship that envelops Tibet. These broadcasts were not mere news bulletins; they were instruments of dignity, connection and resistance. Their recent suspension is not just a bureaucratic decision — it is a moral and strategic failure that must be urgently reversed.

From the snowbound monasteries of Amdo to the refugee settlements of South India, Tibetan listeners tuned in to hear the world speak to them in their own tongue. In a land where information is tightly controlled and history rewritten, VOA and RFA offered unvarnished facts: global events, Tibetan affairs, spiritual teachings and cultural preservation. They were trusted not because they were perfect, but because they were consistent, courageous and rooted in the Tibetan experience.