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0367 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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particularly loud, in chorus with the Americans,
in demands for the maintenance of Chinese integ-
rity. Her ruthless act in Tibet must undoubtedly
shake the prestige of Pekin authority all over Mon-
golia and Turkestan, and may have indirect results
of most serious character.
As to what will be the duration and vigour of
resistance offered by Russia and China to the con-
firmation and enforcement of Younghusband's con-
vention, that is plainly a question whose answer
must be heard in some echo from the mountains of
Manchuria. China's diplomatic movements are ha-
bitually slow, even when her interests would seem
to demand haste. In this case, unless she is pre-
pared to brave the insistent English, her interest
lies with delay. But Russia and China are not
alone, though vastly preponderant, in their interest
in the Tibetan question. The indirect effects may
be of wide international import. This phase of the
question was broached by me in a paper appearing
in the *North American Review* of May, 1904, shortly
after my return from Asia, and before the rigorous
Clause IX., or any part of the drastic Younghus-
band convention had been published. That its
near-by previsions were just, the event has proved.
A quotation from that paper may well explain
the ultimate danger to the Asiatic—hence to the
European — situation that may spring from the
apparently isolated events in an almost unknown
mountain-region.

"The practical destruction of Thibetan independence,
which may be assumed as the object of the present
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