Chapter 39 The People's Liberation Army must enter Tibet[1]

(October 11, 1950) Ministry of Foreign Affairs: I should tell Ambassador Yuan: (1) Tibet is Chinese territory, and the Tibet issue is China's internal affairs.The People's Liberation Army must enter Tibet.First of all, it hopes to enter Tibet without a war, so the Tibetan delegation was asked to come to Beijing for negotiations in September. The delegation deliberately delayed and has not yet left.Now the People's Liberation Army has advanced to Qamdo and may occupy Qamdo within a few days.If Tibet is willing to negotiate, the delegation should come to Beijing as soon as possible. (2) The question of North Korea should be answered according to Premier Zhou's speech on September 30, that is, China cannot sit idly by and ignore its neighbor being invaded, and the responsibility for expanding the war should be borne by the aggressor country.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to send it for reading.

Mao Zedong October 11 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] These are comments written by Mao Zedong in the report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 10, 1950, by Yuan Zhongxian, the Chinese ambassador to India, on India's attitude towards the Tibet question.