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Tibetan independence - product of the interest of the imperialists
The 14th Dalai Lama in his early years pointed out, "It was the imperialists who, taking advantage of the Tibetan people's antipathy to the Qing Dynasty and Republic of China government, attempted by enticement, deception and instigation to get the Tibetan people to separate from the motherland and come under their oppression and enslavement." Reviewing the following historic facts will easily lead to the conclusion and clarify some misunderstandings among many the uninformed, wagon jumpers and basher over Tibet.

There was no such a word as "independence" in the Tibetan vocabulary before the British invasion in 1904. It was the British who strengthened its presence in central Asia to compete with Russian by making Tibet a buffer zone. Former Times special correspondent, Perceval Landon clearly stated in his book "The Opening of Tibet'' published in 1906 that the increasing Russian influence in Tibet made it imperative for Britain to take actions in Tibet. "These insults would never have given rise to the dispatch of an expedition if the Tibetans had not added injury to them by their dalliance with Russia. As it was, there was nothing else to do but intervene, and that speedily," wrote the reporter. Taking advantage of the political chaos in China in 1913, the British government inveigled the Tibetan authorities into declaring independence and proposed that "Britain be the weaponry supplier after total independence of Tibet;" "Tibet accept British envoys' supervision of Tibetan financial and military affairs in return for Britain's support of Tibetan independence;" "Britain be responsible for resisting the army of the Republic of China when it reaches Tibet. In the summer of 1942, the Tibetan local government, with the support of the British representative, suddenly announced the establishment of a "foreign affairs bureau," and openly carried out "Tibetan independence" activities. At the "Asian Relations Conference" held in New Delhi in March 1947, the British imperialists plotted behind the curtains to invite Tibetan representatives and even identified Tibet as an independent country in Asia.

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

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