We are only too well aware that China likes to exert full control on all the territories and peoples over whom it claims authority. But, in the case of Tibet, the powers that be in Beijing have often been frustrated by the independent streak shown by its people and its leaders.

China annexed Tibet in 1950 and crushed an uprising in its capital, Lhasa, nine years later, forcing many natives to flee, not least of whom was the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and a focal point for the human rights struggle in his country.

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