To find out, we present these research articles from independent scholars, including two by Chinese scholars. These articles constitute the most comprehensive and detailed examination of the background of this controversial agreement and the manner in which China imposed it upon a subjugated people. Instead it was stamped with the personal seals of the Tibetan delegation members, seals hastily manufactured in Beijing. With whatever fanfare China commemorates this infamous agreement, the glaring fact is that the struggle of the Tibetan people to secure a better future for themselves has intensified over the last 50 years. The Chinese authorities during the period of liberalisation in Tibet tacitly acknowledged the need to resolve the issue of Tibet through a process of negotiations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama when it accepted four fact-finding missions and two exploratory delegations from the Tibetan side in 1979 and early 1980's.
China needs to re-start the stalled talks.