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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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out, as tending to minimise the danger, the fact that
the Lhasa authority ends long before the frontier
of China proper is met, going eastward; that, in-
termediate between the great Central Tibetan state
and the Empire, are several large districts, some
substantially independent, some under a Chinese
rule far more direct than that at Lhasa, and in any
case free from political connection with that city.
Some of these smaller states, indeed, as Mr. Rock-
hill and other travellers in Eastern Tibet have
testified, are more or less jealous of the Lhasa
Government. These conditions, it seemed to Mr.
Rockhill, would put a stop to English movement
eastward; these states, he thought, would be a
buffer between the Lion at Lhasa and the Dragon
of China. But, though yielding to none in my
respect for Mr. Rockhill's authority, I yet feel sure,
that if Nepal and Tibet have not served as buffers
in the past, we may not count *anything* as a sure
buffer in the future. The very dissensions which
now indicate a certain independence of the small
states, will become inducements for endless exten-
sion of British Power if once it be established at
Lhasa.
Assuming Russia in Kashgar and England in
Lhasa, we must observe, moreover, the new phase
of parallelism of march as distinguished from frontal
approach. The faces of both will be turned east-
ward and prestige will drive them forward over
perils, as neck-and-neck horses are driven over
hurdles to the finish. True, if China meanwhile
is solidified by external or internal force, so that
her frontier is one that can resist pressure *by force*,
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