Re:How is this provocative ? (Score 2, Informative)

Tibet was formally incorporated into what can be considered imperial China during the Qing dynasty. FF about three hundred or so years, and a fledgling Chinese republic at the helm of a certain warlord named Yuan Shikai is struggling to win international recognition. Yuan signs Tibet as an autonomous territory away in a deal with the UK, who wanted a buffer zone for their India. This is the most recent, and only manifestation of official national independance for Tibet since perhaps the Ming dynasty. The problem is that Yuan's little treaty never even made an appearance in the actual Chinese legislature, and his own legitimacy as head of state was more than questionable. The fact that the man was ousted sometime later and generally agreed upon to be an illegitimate usurper of the early republic by both the nationalists and the communists calls the legitimacy of Tibet's move into de jure independence into question. The story's not nearly as simple as the Tibetan lobby and their groupies claim to be.