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Citation Information
FUTILITY OF NEGOTIATIONS 115
On the face of it there seems some force in the
Tibetan argument that discussion' should take place at
Giagong ; and when officials from Lhasa had at last arrived,
and with a Chinese deputy as well, and even provided with
credentials, and were ready to negotiate, it would seem more
reasonable on our part to have met there and negotiated.
But such negotiations would not in fact have led to
any result. The powers they had would simply have been
not to let us inside the wall. They would have had none
to negotiate in the real sense of the word, and they would
have been afraid to make any kind of concession for fear
their property or even their lives would be forfeited. Even
when we arrived close to Lhasa, and men of much higher
rank came to meet us, they had absolutely no power.
Even the Regent had none, nor the whole Council. The
Tibetans had no machinery for the conduct of foreign
relations. They were under some arrangement to let the
Chinese conduct their foreign relations, and yet, as we
had experienced, they refused to abide by what the
Chinese did for them.
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