China is a neighbor to the small Buddhist country Tibet. Tibet and China have endured a state of mutual respect for centuries. At other times China invaded Tibet, however Tibet also invaded China in the past. Throughout the

Despite the many plots of the Chinese to annex Tibet, they are still a separate country. In the early 1900's the Tibetans signed a treaty with the British. The treaty did such things as confirm Tibet's boundaries and trading rights. By signing the document Tibet made an international conventionalized agreement, something that is done by a country. The British even made China accept the treaty, because they thought China would interfere with the British's trading privileges with the Tibetans. Though later on, the British made a treaty with the Russians where they agreed that neither nation would interfere with Tibet, it was not signed by the independent nation of Tibet.

The US aided Tibet by launching a covert war beginning in 1956. The US helped to train the Tibetan Khampas, a mountain people that are famous for their horsemanship and sharp shooting. Khampas were then taken to the US and trained by Americans; afterwards they were returned to Tibet to train their comrades to fight. In spite of this fact, most Tibetan guerrillas died by the hands of the Chinese or committed suicide to evade capture. By the mid 1960's Washington was putting $1.7 million into this operation, and they did not think that it had much hope of succeeding so support was cut. Eventually all of the Tibetan guerrillas were killed in a large massacre. ("A Secret War on the Roof of the World")

Currently, the Dalai Lama is the leader of Tibet in Exile. This is the Tibetan government that resides in Upper Dharmsala in India. The government is made up of the Dalai Lama and several other Tibetan refugees. They have worked diligently for a long time to free Tibet from the Chinese. Though they have been unsuccessful this effort has even won the Dalai Lama the Nobel Peace Prize. Through all of this the Tibetan people continue suffer many hardships ("Executive Summary").

Tibet was in fact an independent nation at the time of China's invasion. They had met all the requirements of an independent nation. They had a defined territory, a population inhabiting the country, a government using authority in that territory, and the ability to initialize international relations.

Ever since the Chinese invasion, Tibet has had many troubles. One of them is militarisation. Many Chinese generals with thousands of troops entered Tibet. The military brought fear to the Tibetan people and also ruined their economy. The army would demand food from the Tibetans. At first the army only demanded a little food, but they eventually demanded such a large amount that the price of food inflated to ten times the original value. Chinese people would also burn the bones of dead animals in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. This is very offensive to the Tibetan people and their religion. In Tibet, even butchers were considered outcasts for killing animals (Dalai Lama 20).

The Chinese insisted that they were only in Tibet to help the people and to protect them from "imperialist nations," when in fact the Chinese were the only imperialists in Tibet (67). The Chinese said that once they had finished assisting the Tibetans, they would leave; however the Chinese only brought more pain and suffering to the h

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