IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
OUR ATTITUDE TO CHINA 423
priestly power required to be broken, for it had become
a curse and drag to the people. What I doubt is whether
the Chinese have gone the right way about it. To me it
seems they are more likely to have roused rumblings
among the Tibetans and Mongolians for many years to
come rather than have secured peace. Our own victories
had reduced the Tibetans of Tibet proper to order. The
recalcitrant Dalai Lama had been obliged to fly, and the
Chinese were masters of the situation ; and, especially
after we had withdrawn from Chumbi, they had nothing
to fear from us. That, even with these advantages, they
should have pursued this active policy in Tibet, driven the
Dalai Lama from Lhasa, turned the suzerainty into
sovereignty, and practically transformed Tibet from a
14 native State into a Chinese province, indicates to me that
they are wanting in political sagacity, however much
*1 diplomatic acumen they may possess, and that their action
is much more likely to cause disorder than order on our
1 frontier.
The problem reduces itself to this, then—that we have
to find some means of preventing Chinese action causing
disorder. Now, though I disagree with our policy of the
last few years, I recognize that it does now give us a
a strong position. We have been most accommodating to
hi the Chinese, and especially in regard to the evacuation of
the Chumbi Valley, when the conditions under which they
might claim evacuation had not been fulfilled. If we
erred, it was in the direction in which we always should
err--in the direction of conciliation and broad reasonable-
ness. We have, therefore, some ground to stand on. So
standing, we have to work back to the situation there was
at Lhasa in 1904, when Yutai was Resident, and before
Tang and Chang and Chao ever appeared upon the
scene.
It is conceivable that this present burst of the
Chinese will not last long. It is expensive, and the
Chinese cannot afford unnecessary expenditure. What
they want, we may conjecture, is, above everything, to
save their face." The Tibetans had been flouting them
for years, and the Chinese wanted to kick them. They
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