the lost kingdom

since 1950 when china occupied tibet,its political fortunes have waxed and waned depending on the prevailing mood in beijing,china-tibet relatinship can be described as one of overlapping circles. after the earlier western humiliation,the communists consider that any tibetan call for independance bear the marks of imperial conspiracy.the british will not go to tibet's open aid,for fear that backing tibet's claim for independance would open a can of worms in its own colonies.on march 10 1959 tibetians launched an uprising to rid the himalaya region of communist forces that had marched into tibet nine years earlier. the rebels were routed. ten thousand tibetian wer e killed .the tibetan issue doesnot offer a solution. the chinese know only too well that it is the dalal lama who binds tibetan everywhere together and that his presence or absence.but he remains astonishingly optimistic, believing that he will return to tibet one day and that economic reforms in china will bring liberation.