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Traces China's claim over Tibet back to 634 A.D.

Since the 1980s, Tibet has again become a focal point of international controversy. Arguments are now claiming that Tibet in 1950 was, and of right ought to have been, a state. Condemnations by various bodies in the 1950s and the 1960s that accused China of invading and "independent" Tibet and thus violating international law have re-surfaced to back that claim. The paper maintains that the case for Chinese sovereignty over Tibet is very strong, and attempts to argue on the contrary suffer from a variety of historical, legal and logical weakness. Nevertheless, the paper concludes that it is one thing to claim that China has sovereign power over Tibet and therefore her actions in the 1950s did not violate international law, it is another to claim that she has violated the human rights of the Tibetans. (AJPS/DÜI)