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0143 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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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.