Key Highlights
- By 1950, it had all the governmental institutions of a sovereign entity, and its disappearance from history was only through the suppression of historical accounts and forced propaganda after the Chinese occupation. Invented Continuity: A Retroactive LineageThe entire historical narrative of Beijing is essentially a strategic, deceptive trick.
- The Chinese government has, for a long time maintained that they took over Tibet through a continuous line of authority that started with the Yuan Dynasty of the Mongol Empire (1271, 1368).
- However, this claim fails when closely examined.
- As Professor Han Shiang Lau, a respected Chinese-American historian, has demonstrated through analysis of authoritative Ming Dynasty documents, Tibet was explicitly categorised as a foreign country, not as Chinese territory.
- These are the very same documents the People's Republic of China claims as proof of its authority.
