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• May 16, 2012

  Increasingly Expanding Foreign Trade

  The 22 counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region are contiguous to five countries, namely, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and to the Kashmir area as well. More than 4,000 kilometers of China’s inland boundary line abuts Tibet.       The number of merchants from South Asia to Tibet in history was considerable. In the 1950s, there...
  
  

• May 14, 2012

  Gunfire in 1904

    However, the 13th Dalai Lama told the British he would not contact any foreigners without the consent of the Central Government. In this situation, Curzon planned the invasion ofTibet. In 1904, British troops advanced fromIndiaintoTibet. In March, some l, 000 Tibetan soldiers and civilians rushed to confront the invaders inQoimishango. The leader of the...