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1913 - Tibet reasserts independence after decades of rebuffing attempts by

Britain and China to establish control.





To whom it may concern,



There are some people think Dalai Lama announced “independence” in 1912 in

a letter to the new President of Chinese Republic, Yuan Shih-Kai (not 1911)

, but there are still a lot of arguments on if that meant a “independence

declaration” or not. In another “believed-to-be-proclamation” dated 8th

February 1913 (Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet; A Political History, Page 15-16

(Yale, 1967)), does not purport to cut the governmental ties between

Beijing and Lhasa in any areas in which Beijing had already actively

exercised authority. There is no evidence that the Proclamation was in fact

delivered to any Chinese authorities or the international community. There

was a Simla Convention of 1914, in which Beijing, Lhasa and British

Government involved, tried to separate Tibet to an inner Tibet and outer

Tibet,加拿大华人, but China has never signed it. In fact, the Chinese rights in Tibet

were never thought by any of the parties participated the meeting. In 1921,

the British Government informed the Chinese Government officially that they

recognised the status of Tibet “as an autonomous state under the

suzerainty of China”. It was only in 1942-43 that when Tibetan Regent

informed President Roosevelt that Tibet ”has been free and independent from

her earliest history” for the first time. While neither Chinese nor

British Government accepted that as a legal statement weight enough to

change the status of Tibet which they have recognised in the prior decades.

The American Government did not take any action in view of the political

complications involved.



The only mutual “recognition” of Lhasa authorities in Tibet was in a

treaty, in January 1913, between authorities in Tibet and the authorities

asserting a right to govern and independent Mongolia. While, considering

the doubtful status of these Mongolia’s authorities, that cannot be

considered as a recognition of independence by an establishes member of the

international community. Also, same as many self-proclaimed independences

such as the Southern Rhodesian declaration of independence from the United

Kingdom would carry much legal weight even if the “independent Government”

were “recognised” by a few states or prevented their parent states from

doing all in their power to make the declaration ineffective.



Based on the evidences above, the statement of “1913 - Tibet reasserts

independence after decades of rebuffing attempts by Britain and China to

establish control.” is wrong at: Tibet DID not in fact reassert

independence in 1913, at least not in a way recognised by international law

and community; Tibet did rebuff attempts by Britain to establish control

since it had been and still was in control of Chinese Government by law and

international recognition and Tibet has never been rebuffing attempts by

China to establish control for decades before 1913. There was a group of

people in the Tibet authorities wanted to separate Tibet from China, but

those attempts were not attempts of people’s willing or were international

recognised as having any legal weight.



I urge you to correct the misleading statement in the website.



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