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  2. Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China

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    One month after China invaded Tibet, El Salvador sponsored a complaint by the Tibetan government at the UN, but India and the United Kingdom prevented it from being debated. [74] Tibetan negotiators were sent to Beijing and presented with an already-finished document commonly referred to as the Seventeen Point Agreement. There was no ...

  3. History of Tibet (1950–present) - Wikipedia

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    The PRC claims that from 1951 to 2007, the Tibetan population in Lhasa-administered Tibet has increased from 1.2 million to almost 3 million. The GDP of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) today is thirty times that of before 1950. Workers in Tibet have the second highest wages in China. [102]

  4. History of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    The USA also recognised Tibet as a province of China during this time as seen in the documentary film Why We Fight #6 The Battle of China produced by the USA War Department in 1944. [115] Some other authors argue that Tibet was also de jure independent after Tibet-Mongolia Treaty of 1913, before which Mongolia has been recognized by Russia.

  5. Tibetan sovereignty debate - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan Government in Exile asserts that Tibet was an independent state until the PRC invaded Tibet in 1949/1950. [7] [8] A number of outside scholars maintain that Tibet and China were ruled by the Mongols during the Yuan dynasty, treating Tibet and China as separate realms under a common rule. [9]

  6. 1959 Tibetan uprising - Wikipedia

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    The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. [2]

  7. Dalai Lama's escape from China - Wikipedia

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    The Dalai Lama in 1942. Following the end of the Qing Dynasty, the 13th Dalai Lama declared the independence of Tibet in 1913. [2] This independence was contested by the Chinese Government in Beijing who in October 1950, invaded Tibet and seized most of its territory in a military campaign of about two weeks. [3]

  8. Serfdom in Tibet controversy - Wikipedia

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    There is a prolonged public disagreement over the extent and nature of serfdom in Tibet prior to the annexation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1951. The debate is political in nature, with some arguing that the ultimate goal on the Chinese side is to legitimize Chinese control of the territory now known as the Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, and ...

  9. Sinicization of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    Although the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China is referred to as the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet in Chinese Communist Party historiography, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration consider it a colonization [21] and the Tibetan Youth Congress believes that it was an invasion. [22]