The double face of the Dalai Lama – Tibet, the other side of the story by Frans Vandenbosch. Published Mar 16, 2017

The double face of the Dalai Lama – Tibet, the other side of the story by Frans Vandenbosch. Published Mar 16, 2017

Tibet was, after several invasions, annexed by the Mongols and became part of the Mongol Empire in 1240. The same fate also underwent China: Genghis Kahn defeated the Western Xia (China) and the Jin Dynasty (China). In 1279 also the Song dynasty was overtrown by the Mongols.

Genghis Khan and his sons / successors caused throughout Eurasia an unprecedented never matched bloodbath. In China, between 1195 and 1235, they reduced the population from 50 million to 8.5 million.

Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, founded the Yuan Dynasty, ruling over all of China, including Tibet. Kublai Kahn, during his reign as emperor of China, adopted to the Chinese culture and political system; he made his own Mongolian language and culture subordinate to the Chinese.

After the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty came the Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644/1683) and then the Qing dynasty (Manchu) until the chaos and collapse in 1912. All these seven centuries Tibet remained part of China, as many other (by the Mongols conquered) areas.

At the beginning of the Republic of China (the period from 1912 by Sun Yat-sen, the warlords, the fake emperors, military leaders, the riots, famine and great distress) a number of areas and vassal states disengaged from China. So also Tibet. Tibet became de facto independent, but was never recognised by any other country, not even by the US or UK.

Upon the withdrawal of the Guómíndǎng (Kuomintang) to Taiwan in 1949 and the founding of the PRC, the Communists of Mao Zedong of the People’s Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1951. Tibet, after some 40 years, became part of China again. Mao promised Tibet independence, but later he only spoke about autonomy.

In the 1960ties, the US (military and CIA) actions in Tibet amounted 1.7 bil. USD/year, including a yearly subsidy of 180000 USD for the Dalai Lama. (his brother, Gyalo Thondup, was a CIA agent)

In an agreement between China and the US in 1980, the CIA actions would cease. But soon after the NED (the “CIA2”) has taken over the sponsoring; until today. In 2014, the NED sponsored 22 organisations in Tibet with 621134 USD

Further details: read Richard M Bennett “Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA”

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