



The US Embassy in China told on Monday that its ambassador will visit Tibet this week. This journey is going on four years after getting permission to reach the restricted area. The US State Department had said that China is interfering in a "well planned" manner when visiting American diplomats, journalists and tourists in the Tibetan region, two months after Ambassador Terry Branstad is traveling.





An Embassy spokesman told AFP in a single email that, Branstad is

travelling the

Qinghai Province and the neighboring Tibet Autonomous Region from Sunday to this Saturday. The spokesman said that this visit is an opportunity for ambassadors to interact with local leaders about the long-standing concerns about the preservation of Tibetan culture and language and restrictions on religious freedom.





Max Bockas visited Tibet in May 2015 before

Branstad

. According to a report by the Ministry of External Affairs in March, last year, nine Americans had sought permission to go to Tibet, but five of them including the

Branstad

were rejected. The US report was dismissed by China as "partisan." The Chinese authorities told the

"geographical and climatic" conditions for not allowing permission to go to the Himalayan region.