Generál Čankajšek v roce 1946 prohlásil, že Tibeťané jsou Číňané, a kdyby jeho nacionalisté v občanské válce zvítězili, rozhodně by jim neudělil nezávislost.
General Chiang Kai-shek declared in 1946 that the Tibetans were Chinese, and he certainly would not have granted them independence if his Nationalists had won the civil war.