The U.S. Policy Toward Theocratic Tibet 1942-1959: The Remote Plateau as Trilateral Political Arena

• In Event: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Asia and the Middle East

Brief Overview

This paper examines the three-stage US policy towards theocratic Tibet from 1942 to 1959, which was essentially the trilateral game among Washington's anti-communism, modern China’s territorial irredentism, and the Lamaist ethnic separatism.

Author

• Ruru Jiang, Chinese University of Hong Kong