The Tibetan Army was established in 1913 by the 13th Dalai Lama, who had fled Tibet during the 1904 British invasion of Tibet and returned only after the fall of the Qing power in Tibet in 1911. During the revolutionary turmoil, the Dalai Lama had attempted to raise a volunteer army to expel all the ethnic Chinese from Lhasa, but failed, in large part because of the opposition of pro-Chinese monks, especially from the Drepung Monastery. The Dalai Lama proceeded to raise a professional army, led by his trusted advisor Tsarong
Tibet’s military control was located in Qamdo from 1918. During this time, the Sichuan warlords were busy fighting the Yunnan warlords, allowing the Tibetan army to defeat the Sichuan forces and conquer the region. The Tibetan Army was involved in numerous border battles against the Guomindang (KMT) and Ma Clique forces of the Republic of China. In 1932, the KMT defeated the Tibetan army, driving them out of Kham.
Their first encounter with the People’s Liberation Army was in 1950, when they took over Dengo, and after failed negotiations initiated the Battle of Qamdo, marking the Chinese occupation of Tibet that continues to this day.
not to applaud american neoliberalism but joe biden talking about people having to board coffin ships during ireland’s great famine “because of what the brits were doing” is the funniest thing I’ve seen this month. I guarantee you the british media are gonna have a field day with this one. to them bombing syria is fine but calling brits ‘brits’ in a pro-irish context is where they draw the line
I think England should have its Stonehenge privileges revoked. I think we need to put another power in charge of Stonehenge. Nobody asked themselves “Is a sacred Neolithic burial site really the place for tacky holograms of a woman everyone hates?”
Tacky
This is like Mt Rushmore, but impermanent. Feels just as bad.
