source:
http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html
Tibet is part of China for more than 700 years
(You may have heard a lot about Chinese invasion of Tibet or
sympathetic about Tibet Independent movement in Western media. Do you
know that China has 56 nationalities and is never a racist country in
history. Do you know that Tibetan immigrated to Tibet several
thousand
years ago from other part of China? Do you know that when Red Army
entered Tibet in 1951, they also recovered other part of China
(Chinese army invaded China????). Do you know that before 1951, the
feudal lords in Tibet who constituted only five percent of the
population possessed 95 percent of the means of production. Do you
know that Buddhism was brought into Tibet from China Proper before
being developed into the current state? Read the Tibet history before
passing your judgment about a nation you have been misled in
centuries.)
British and America working hard to separate Tibet from China since
19th century.
During the 19th century, Chinese Qing government control weakened,
and
prosperity diminished. China suffered massive social strife, economic
stagnation, explosive population growth, and Western penetration and
influence. Britain's desire to continue its illegal opium trade with
China collided with imperial edicts prohibiting the addictive drug,
and the First Opium War erupted in 1840. China lost the war;
subsequently, Britain and other Western powers, including the United
States, forcibly occupied "concessions" and gained special commercial
privileges. Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842 under the Treaty
of
Nanjing, and in 1898, when the Opium Wars finally ended, Britain
executed a 99-year lease of the New Territories, significantly
expanding the size of the Hong Kong colony.
British aggressors invaded China's Tibet twice in 1888 and 1903. The
Tibetan army and civilians rose to resist but were defeated. In the
second aggressive war against Tibet, the British army occupied Lhasa,
and the 13th Dalai Lama was forced to flee from the city. The
invaders
compelled the Tibetan local government officials to sign the Lhasa
Convention. But because the Ministry of External Affairs of the Qing
government believed the Lhasa Convention would do damage to national
sovereignty, the high commissioner stationed in Tibet by the Qing
government refused to sign it, leaving it ineffectual.
Britain took advantage of the political chaos in China after the
collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the new birth of the Republic of
China in 1901, and put before the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
a five-point demand, indicating the denial of China's sovereignty
over
Tibet. Chinese government rejected the brutal demand.
In 1913 the British government inveigled the Tibetan authorities into
declaring independence with the supervision and full sup****t by
British. Simply the British would like to turn Tibet into British
colony like India. Once again British failed.
In the summer of 1942, the Tibetan local government, with the sup****t
of the British representative, announced the establishment of a
"foreign affairs bureau," and openly carried out "Tibetan
independence" activities. These actions were made public and
condemned
unanimously by the Chinese people. The national government also
issued
a stern warning. Under this pressure, the Tibetan local government
had
no choice but to withdraw its decision and re****ted the change to the
national government.
In 1949, America announced in a US newspaper: " The United States is
ready to recognize Tibet as an independent and free country."
In 1950, a load of American weaponry was ****pped into Tibet through
Calcutta in order to help resist the China army entry into Tibet. In
the same year, US Secretary of State Dean Acheson openly slandered
China's liberation of its own territory of Tibet as "invasion." In
the
same month the United States prodded some other countries to propose
a
motion at the United Nations for intervention in China's Tibet. The
scheme was unsuccessful in face of the stern stand of the Chinese
government and the opposition of some countries.
Former US President George Bush once declared that the coastal areas
of China, plus Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, would split. The
US' CIA, with an investment of US$245,000, entrusted the University
of
Hawaii to research whether the tense situations in ethnic areas in
China will lead to a split of the country. The research results
disappointed them.
In 1957 the CIA culled six young men from among Tibetans residing
abroad and sent them to Guam of the United States to receive training
in map-reading, radio transmission, shooting and parachuting.
Subsequently, the United States trained 170 "Kamba guerrillas" in
batches in Hale Camp, Colorado. The trained "Kamba guerrillas" were
airdropped or sneaked into Tibet to execute CIA's plan activities. In
May 1958, two agents trained by the Americans in the first batch
brought a transceiver to the headquarter, which was set up by the
rebel leader Anzhugcang Goinbo Zhaxi in Shannan, to make contact with
the CIA. United States air-dropped arms and ammunition, including 20
sub-machine guns, two mortars, 100 rifles, 600 hand-grenades, 600
artillery shells and close to 40,000 bullets, to the rebels in the
plateau called Chigu Lama Thang. During the same period, United
States
clandestinely ****pped large amounts of arms and ammunition overland
to
the rebels entrenched in the Shannan area.
It was obvious that 1959 Tibet rebellion was all planned by American
government
Form there on, America has been continuously backing the independent
movement of Tibet all along. A movie "Seven Years in Tibet" produced
by U.S. fooled the American with distorted historical facts. Funding
was poured into foundations in U.S. to continue the anti-Chinese
activities.
China's sovereignty on Tibet for over 700 years
Millions of files in both Chinese and Tibetan recording historical
facts over more than seven centuries are being kept in the archives
of
Beijing, Nanjing and Lhasa. No government of any country in the world
has ever recognized Tibet as an independent state.
British Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne, in a formal instruction he
sent out in 1904, called Tibet "a province of the Chinese Empire."
In his speech at the Lok Sabba in 1954, Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru said, "Over the past several hundred years, as far
as
I know, at no time has any foreign country denied China's sovereignty
over Tibet."
In Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, a statue of the
Tang Princess Wen Cheng, who married the Tubo tsampo, king of Tibet,
in 641, is still enshrined and wor****ped in the Potala Palace. The
Tang-Tubo Alliance Monument erected in 823 still stands in the square
in front of the Jokhang Monastery. The monument inscription reads in
part, "The two sovereigns, uncle and nephew, having come to agreement
that their territories be united as one, have signed this alliance of
great peace to last for eternity! May God and humanity bear witness
thereto so that it may be praised from generation to generation."
The following map (From "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd,
1923.) had shown Tibet part of Yuan Dynasty. No one can deny that
Tibet is always a part of China. Tibet is never an independent
country. None of the Chinese government has ever surrendered the
sovereignty of Tibet to others.
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