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India and Tibet : vol.1 |
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Government, but existent nevertheless—was the disturb-
ing factor; now it is Chinese influence, exerted beyond its
legitimate limits and with imprudent harshness. Either of
these causes results in a feeling of uneasiness, restlessness,
and nervousness along our north-eastern frontier, and
necessitates our assembling troops and making diplomatic
protests, and might require us to permanently increase
our garrison on this frontier. That is the practical point
we have to meet.
Inimical Russian influence we have no longer any
cause to fear. Not only has Russia assured us that she
has no intention or desire to interfere politically in Tibet,
but the whole set of her policy is now towards Eastern
Europe rather than towards India. So altered, indeed, is
the situation that in future years I should say that there
would be an increasing likelihood of her acting with us
rather than thwarting us in Tibet, and I believe the day
will come when British and Russian Consuls will be sitting
together in Lhasa, as in Kashgar, Mukden, and dozens of
other places in the Chinese Empire.
There remains the need of preventing Chinese influence
being exercised in such a fashion as to cause disorder.
Chinese influence in Tibet, as long as it is neighbourly to
us and not irritating to the Tibetans, we have no cause to
mind; it is, indeed, what for years we tried to believe
existed. So we never questioned China's suzerainty over
Tibet, and in any dealings with the Tibetans their suze-
rainty always has been and would be recognized. It is of
many hundred years' standing, and as long as it is not
used inimically to us, or in such a tactless way as to
cause disorder on our frontiers, we may be very well satis-
fied that it exists. The Chinese are good neighbours, and
in the sense of any invasion of India by way of Tibet,
we have no need to fear a Yellow Peril. We have
nothing to complain of, therefore, if the Chinese were
established as effective suzerains in Tibet, able to pre-
serve order there, and co-operating with us in a friendly
manner. A reference to the account of our negotiations
at Lhasa will show that throughout I worked with the
Chinese Resident, and never directly with the Tibetans,
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