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(1) include representatives from governments, nongovern-
mental organizations, civic organizations, and educational, cul-
tural, women’s, civil, and human rights groups, including reli-
gious and ethnic minorities and marginalized communities in 
countries with ongoing political, social, ethnic, or violent con-
flict; 
(2) include a specific focus on the success of nonviolent 
movements, inclusion, and representation in conflict resolution; 
(3) develop a curriculum on conflict resolution tools based 
on the principles of nonviolence; and 
(4) make the curriculum publicly available online, in per-
son, and through a variety of media. 
(b) PROHIBITION.—The United States Institute of Peace may 
not, in the course of any activity authorized by subsection (a), 
enter into any contract with an outside entity to conduct advocacy 
on its behalf. 
(c) SUNSET.—The authorities provided under this section shall 
terminate on the date that is five years after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 335. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES-INDIA GANDHI- 
KING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID), with the concur-
rence of the Secretary of State and in coordination with appropriate 
counterparts in the Government of India, is authorized to establish, 
on such terms and conditions as are determined necessary, one 
or more legal entities to compose the United States-India Gandhi- 
King Development Foundation (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Foundation’’). Each such legal entity within the Foundation shall 
be organized under the laws of India and shall not be considered 
to be an agency or establishment of the United States Government 
and shall not have the full faith and credit of the United States. 
(b) FUNCTIONS.—The Foundation, through one or more entities 
referred to in subsection (a)— 
(1) shall identify development priorities and administer 
and oversee competitively-awarded grants to private nongovern-
mental entities to address such priorities in India, including— 
(A) health initiatives addressing tuberculosis (TB), 
water, sanitation, and health (WASH), and pollution and 
related health impacts (PHI); 
(B) pollution, plastic waste reduction, and climate- 
related shocks; 
(C) education; and 
(D) empowerment of women; 
(2) should provide credible platforms and models, including 
returnable capital to attract and blend public and private cap-
ital, which can then be deployed efficiently and effectively to 
address the priorities identified in paragraph (1). 
(c) ADDITIONALITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Before an entity within the Foundation 
makes a grant under subsection (b)(1) to address a priority 
identified under such subsection, the Foundation shall ensure 
that private sector entities are afforded an opportunity to sup-
port the projects funded by such grants.
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(2) SAFEGUARDS, POLICIES, AND GUIDELINES.—The Founda-
tion shall develop appropriate safeguards, policies, and guide-
lines to ensure that grants made under subsection (b)(1) operate 
according to internationally recognized best practices and 
standards, including for transparency and accountability. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.—No party receiving a grant made under sub-
section (b)(1) may receive such grant in an amount that is more 
than five percent of amounts appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able under section 337(a)(3) to the entity in the Foundation making 
such grant. 
(e) GOVERNING COUNCIL.— 
(1) PURPOSE.—The Government of the United States and 
the Government of India shall convene a Governing Council 
to provide guidance and direction to the Foundation. 
(2) APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS.—The Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, with the 
concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall appoint a majority 
of the Governing Council of the Foundation for a period of 
five years following the establishment of the Foundation. 
(3) CHARTER.—The Governing Council of the Foundation 
shall adopt a charter for the operation of the Foundation, 
which shall include provisions to— 
(A) identify development priorities or a process to iden-
tify development priorities; 
(B) define criteria for application, merit review, and 
transparent, competitive awarding of grants by the Founda-
tion; 
(C) establish an annual organization-wide audit by an 
independent auditor in accordance with generally accepted 
auditing standards, the results of which shall be made 
immediately available to the Board, the Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development, 
and the appropriate Government of India counterpart; 
(D) assist in the creation of project specific timetables 
for each of the projects funded by a grant from the Founda-
tion; 
(E) establish an oversight role and march-in audit 
rights for the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development and the appropriate Govern-
ment of India counterpart; and 
(F) establish an annual report on the activities of the 
Foundation to be made publicly available. 
(f) PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PROJECT INFORMATION.—The Founda-
tion shall maintain a user-friendly, publicly available, machine 
readable database with detailed project level information, as appro-
priate, including a description of the grants made by the Foundation 
under this section and project level performance metrics. 
(g) DETAIL
OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
TO 
THE FOUNDATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Whenever the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development or the 
Secretary of State determines it to be in furtherance of the 
purposes of this subtitle, the Administrator and the Secretary 
are authorized to detail or assign any officer or employee of 
the Agency or the Department, respectively, to any position 
in the Foundation to provide technical, scientific, or professional 
assistance to the Foundation or, in cooperation with the
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Foundation, to implementing partners of the Foundation, with-
out reimbursement to the United States Government. 
(2) STATUS.—Any United States Government officer or 
employee, while detailed or assigned under this subsection, 
shall be considered, for the purpose of preserving their allow-
ances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits as such, 
an officer or employee of the United States Government and 
of the agency of the United States Government from which 
detailed or assigned, and shall continue to receive compensa-
tion, allowances, and benefits from program funds appropriated 
to that agency or made available to that agency for purposes 
related to the activities of the detail or assignment, in accord-
ance with authorities related to their employment status and 
agency policies. 
(3) SUNSET.—The authorities provided under this sub-
section shall terminate on the date that is five years after 
the establishment of the Foundation. 
SEC. 336. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) INITIAL REPORTS.—Not later than 120 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
a report on the Secretary of State’s plan to establish the initia-
tive authorized under section 333; 
(2) the president and chief executive officer of the United 
States Institute of Peace shall submit to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a 
report on the president and chief executive officer’s plan to 
establish the initiative authorized under section 334; and 
(3) the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report 
on the Administrator’s plan to establish the organization 
authorized under section 335. 
(b) PERIODIC UPDATES.—The Secretary of State, president and 
chief executive officer of the United States Institute of Peace, and 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development shall submit to the committees described in subsection 
(a)(3) an update on a semiannual basis regarding the progress 
in implementing each of the initiatives or establishing the organiza-
tion referred to in such subsection. 
SEC. 337. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out— 
(1) section 333, up to $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2021 through 2025 to the Secretary of State 
(2) section 334, up to $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 to 
the United States Institute of Peace;
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(3) section 335, up to $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 
to the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development; and 
(4) section 335, up to an additional $15,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2022 through 2025 to the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, if the 
private sector in India commits amounts equal to that contrib-
uted by the United States. 
(b) SENSE
OF CONGRESS
ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FUNDS.— 
It is the sense of Congress that the authorization of appropriations 
under subsection (a) should be renewable for one or more periods 
of not more than 5 years if— 
(1) authorized by Congress; and 
(2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment, determines that the Foundation’s work is successful in 
addressing the priorities identified in section 335(b)(1) and 
that the private sector in India has committed funds to the 
Foundation in accordance with subsection (a)(4). 
Subtitle E—Tibetan Policy and Support 
Act of 2020 
SEC. 341. MODIFICATIONS TO AND REAUTHORIZATION OF TIBETAN 
POLICY ACT OF 2020. 
(a) TIBETAN NEGOTIATIONS.—Section 613 of the Tibetan Policy 
Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘without preconditions’’ after ‘‘a 
dialogue’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or democratically-elected leaders 
of the Tibetan community’’ after ‘‘his representatives’’; 
and 
(iii) by inserting before the period at the end the 
following: ‘‘and should coordinate with other govern-
ments in multilateral efforts toward this goal’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); 
and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) POLICY COMMUNICATION.—The Secretary of State shall 
ensure that, in accordance with this Act, United States policy 
on Tibet, as coordinated by the United States Special Coordi-
nator for Tibetan Issues, is communicated to all Federal depart-
ments and agencies in contact with the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘until December 31, 2021’’ and 
inserting ‘‘until December 31, 2031’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘and direct the Department of 
State to make public on its website’’ after ‘‘appropriate 
congressional committees’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 
a semicolon;
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(C) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; and’’ ; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) the steps taken by the United States Government 
to promote the human rights and distinct religious, cultural, 
linguistic, and historical identity of the Tibetan people, 
including the right of the Tibetan people to select, educate, 
and venerate their own religious leaders in accordance with 
their established religious practice and system.’’. 
(b) TIBET PROJECT PRINCIPLES.—Section 616 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘human rights,’’ after 
‘‘respect Tibetan’’; 
(B) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 
a semicolon; 
(C) in paragraph (9)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘involuntary or coerced’’ after ‘‘nor 
facilitate the’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(10) neither provide incentive for, nor facilitate the invol-
untary or coerced relocation of, Tibetan nomads from their 
traditional pasturelands into concentrated settlements.’’; 
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsections: 
‘‘(e) UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President is authorized to provide 
assistance to nongovernmental organizations to support inclu-
sive economic growth, resilience, global health, education, 
environmental 
stewardship, 
and 
cultural 
and 
historical 
preservation for Tibetan communities in Tibet, in accordance 
with the principles specified in subsection (d). 
‘‘(2) COORDINATION.—Assistance authorized under para-
graph (1) shall be carried out in coordination with the United 
States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues in accordance 
with section 621(d). 
‘‘(f) PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT.—The Secretary of State, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, should— 
‘‘(1) encourage United States businesses and individuals 
that are engaged in commerce or investing in enterprises in 
Tibet to be guided by the principles specified in subsection 
(d) and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business 
and Human Rights; and 
‘‘(2) hold regular consultations with businesses and individ-
uals that are engaged in commerce or are investing in enter-
prises in Tibet about the principles referenced in paragraph 
(1) and the business practices of such businesses and individ-
uals in Tibet.’’. 
(c) DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION RELATING TO TIBET.—Section 
618 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘SEC. 618. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION RELATING TO TIBET. 
‘‘(a) UNITED STATES CONSULATE IN LHASA, TIBET.—The Sec-
retary should seek to establish a United States consulate in Lhasa, 
Tibet—
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‘‘(1) to provide consular services to United States citizens 
traveling in Tibet; and 
‘‘(2) to monitor political, economic, and cultural develop-
ments in Tibet. 
‘‘(b) POLICY.—The Secretary may not authorize the establish-
ment in the United States of any additional consulate of the People’s 
Republic of China until such time as a United States consulate 
in Lhasa, Tibet, is established under subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive the requirement under 
subsection (b), notwithstanding the lack of a United States consulate 
in Lhasa, not less than 30 days after the Secretary determines 
and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that it 
is in the national security interests of the United States to waive 
such requirements and submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report including— 
‘‘(1) a specific and detailed rationale for the determination 
that the waiver is in the national security interests of the 
United States; and 
‘‘(2) a description of the efforts by the Department of State 
to seek the establishment of a United States consulate in 
Lhasa.’’. 
(d) RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN TIBET.—Section 620(b) of such 
Act (22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended by inserting before the period 
at the end the following: ‘‘, including with respect to the reincarna-
tion system of Tibetan Buddhism’’. 
(e) UNITED
STATES
SPECIAL
COORDINATOR
FOR
TIBETAN 
ISSUES.—Section 621 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) OBJECTIVES.—The objectives of the Special Coordinator are 
to— 
‘‘(1) promote substantive dialogue without preconditions, 
between the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
and the Dalai Lama, his or her representatives, or democrat-
ically elected leaders of the Tibetan community, or explore 
activities to improve prospects for dialogue, that leads to a 
negotiated agreement on Tibet; 
‘‘(2) coordinate with other governments in multilateral 
efforts towards the goal of a negotiated agreement on Tibet; 
‘‘(3) encourage the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China to address the aspirations of the Tibetan people with 
regard to their distinct historical, cultural, religious, and lin-
guistic identity; 
‘‘(4) promote the human rights of the Tibetan people; 
‘‘(5) promote activities to preserve environment and water 
resources of the Tibetan plateau; 
‘‘(6) encourage that any initiatives or activities for Tibetan 
communities in the Tibet Autonomous Region are conducted 
in accordance with the principles espoused in section 616(d); 
and 
‘‘(7) promote access to Tibet in accordance with the Recip-
rocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–330).’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 
a semicolon; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (8); 
and
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(C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(6) provide guidance with respect to all projects carried 
out pursuant to assistance provided under section 616(e); 
‘‘(7) seek to establish international diplomatic coalitions 
to— 
‘‘(A) oppose any effort by the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China to select, educate, and venerate 
Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders in a manner incon-
sistent with the principle that the succession or identifica-
tion of Tibetan Buddhist lamas, including the Dalai Lama, 
should occur without interference, in a manner consistent 
with traditional practice; and 
‘‘(B) ensure that the identification and installation of 
Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders, including any future 
Dalai Lama, is determined solely within the Tibetan Bud-
dhist faith community, in accordance with the internation-
ally-recognized right to religious freedom; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) PERSONNEL.—The Secretary shall ensure that the Office 
of the Special Coordinator is adequately staffed at all times to 
assist in the management of the responsibilities of this section.’’. 
SEC. 342. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING THE SUCCESSION OR 
REINCARNATION OF THE DALAI LAMA. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Tibetan Buddhism is practiced in many countries 
including Bhutan, India, Mongolia, Nepal, the People’s Republic 
of China, the Russian Federation, and the United States, yet 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China has repeat-
edly insisted on its role in managing the selection of Tibet’s 
next spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, through actions such 
as those described in the ‘‘Measures on the Management of 
the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas’’ in 2007. 
(2) On March 19, 2019, Chinese Ministry of Affairs spokes-
person reiterated that the ‘‘reincarnation of living Buddhas 
including the Dalai Lama must comply with Chinese laws 
and regulations and follow religious rituals and historical 
conventions’’. 
(3) The Government of the People’s Republic of China has 
interfered in the process of recognizing a successor or reincarna-
tion of Tibetan Buddhist leaders, including in 1995 by arbi-
trarily detaining Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a 6-year old boy 
who was identified as the 11th Panchen Lama, and purporting 
to install its own candidate as the Panchen Lama. 
(4) The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, issued a state-
ment on September 24, 2011, explaining the traditions and 
spiritual precepts of the selection of Dalai Lamas, setting forth 
his views on the considerations and process for selecting his 
successor, and providing a response to the Chinese govern-
ment’s claims that only the Chinese government has the ulti-
mate authority in the selection process of the Dalai Lama. 
(5) The 14th Dalai Lama said in his statement that the 
person who reincarnates has sole legitimate authority over 
where and how he or she takes rebirth and how that reincarna-
tion is to be recognized and if there is a need for a 15th
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Dalai Lama to be recognized, then the responsibility shall pri-
marily rest with the officers of the Dalai Lama’s Gaden 
Phodrang Trust, who will be informed by the written instruc-
tions of the 14th Dalai Lama. 
(6) Since 2011, the 14th Dalai Lama has reiterated publicly 
on numerous occasions that decisions on the successions, ema-
nations, or reincarnations of the Dalai Lama belongs to the 
Tibetan Buddhist faith community alone. 
(7) On June 8, 2015, the United States House of Represent-
atives unanimously approved House Resolution 337 which calls 
on the United States Government to ‘‘underscore that govern-
ment interference in the Tibetan reincarnation process is a 
violation of the internationally recognized right to religious 
freedom . . . and to highlight the fact that other countries 
besides China have long Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and that 
matters related to reincarnations in Tibetan Buddhism are 
of keen interest to Tibetan Buddhist populations worldwide’’. 
(8) On April 25, 2018, the United States Senate unani-
mously approved Senate Resolution 429 which ‘‘expresses its 
sense that the identification and installation of Tibetan Bud-
dhist religious leaders, including a future 15th Dalai Lama, 
is a matter that should be determined solely within the Tibetan 
Buddhist faith community, in accordance with the inalienable 
right to religious freedom’’. 
(9) The Department of State’s Report on International Reli-
gious Freedom for 2018 reported on policies and efforts of 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China to exert 
control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders, 
including reincarnate lamas, and stated that ‘‘[United States] 
officials underscored that decisions on the reincarnation of the 
Dalai Lama should be made solely by faith leaders.’’. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States 
that— 
(1) decisions regarding the selection, education, and vener-
ation of Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders are exclusively spir-
itual matters that should be made by the appropriate religious 
authorities within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and in the 
context of the will of practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism; 
(2) the wishes of the 14th Dalai Lama, including any writ-
ten instructions, should play a key role in the selection, edu-
cation, and veneration of a future 15th Dalai Lama; and 
(3) interference by the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China or any other government in the process of recognizing 
a successor or reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama and any 
future Dalai Lamas would represent a clear abuse of the right 
to religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists and the Tibetan 
people. 
(c) HOLDING CHINESE OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM ABUSES TARGETING TIBETAN BUDDHISTS.—It is the policy 
of the United States to take all appropriate measures to hold 
accountable senior officials of the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party who directly 
interfere with the identification and installation of the future 15th 
Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism, successor to the 14th Dalai 
Lama, including by— 
(1) imposing sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky 
Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 note); and
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(2) prohibiting admission to the United States under section 
212(a)(2)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(a)(2)(G)). 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PROGRAMMING TO PROMOTE RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM FOR TIBETAN BUDDHISTS.—Consistent with section 
401 of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act 
(Public Law 114–281; 130 Stat. 1436), the Ambassador-at-Large 
for International Religious Freedom should support efforts to protect 
and promote international religious freedom in China and for pro-
grams to protect Tibetan Buddhism in China and elsewhere. 
SEC. 343. POLICY REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER 
RESOURCES ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Tibetan Plateau contains glaciers, rivers, grass-
lands, and other geographical and ecological features that are 
crucial for supporting vegetation growth and biodiversity and 
regulating 
water 
flow 
and 
supply 
for 
an 
estimated 
1,800,000,000 people. Environmental changes threaten the gla-
ciers in Tibet that feed the major rivers of South and East 
Asia, which supply freshwater to an estimated 1,800,000,000 
people. 
(2) Several factors, including temperature changes, large 
government-backed infrastructure projects, and resettlement of 
Tibetan nomads, are likely to result in variable water flows 
in the future. 
(3) The grasslands of Tibet play a significant role in carbon 
production and sequestration and Tibet’s rivers support wet-
lands that play a key role in water storage, water quality, 
and the regulation of water flow, support biodiversity, foster 
vegetation growth, and act as carbon sinks. 
(4) Traditional Tibetan grassland stewardship practices, 
which can be key to mitigating the negative effects of environ-
mental changes on the Tibetan Plateau, are undermined by 
the resettlement of nomads from Tibetan grasslands. 
(5) The People’s Republic of China has approximately 20 
percent of the world’s population but only around 7 percent 
of the world’s water supply, while many countries in South 
and Southeast Asia rely on the rivers flowing from the 
Himalayas of the Tibetan Plateau. 
(6) The People’s Republic of China has already completed 
water transfer programs diverting billions of cubic meters of 
water yearly and has plans to divert more waters from the 
Tibetan plateau in China. 
(b) WATER RESOURCES
IN TIBET
AND
THE TIBETAN WATER-
SHED.—The Secretary of State, in coordination with relevant agen-
cies of the United States Government, should— 
(1) pursue collaborative efforts with Chinese and inter-
national scientific institutions, as appropriate, to monitor the 
environment on the Tibetan Plateau, including glacial retreat, 
temperature rise, and carbon levels, in order to promote a 
greater understanding of the effects on permafrost, river flows, 
grasslands and desertification, and the monsoon cycle; 
(2) engage with the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China, the Tibetan people, and nongovernmental organiza-
tions to encourage the participation of Tibetan nomads and