Analysis on Yuan Shi-kai Government's Response to Tibet Crisis

In the early of China,Chinese frontier crisis became more serious.Facing British interference in Tibet issue publicly,the Yuan Shi-kai government used a variety of methods,such as persuading Tibetan to accept the thought of Republic of Five Ethnic Group,supporting republican regime,resisting Britain pressure on tripartite talks held by China,Tibet and Britain,while attempting to obtain the success of the direct negotiations with Tibet.Due to the weakness of China's central government,these methods had not been successful.During the subsequent Simla Conference,Beijing government's policy on Tibet was consistent and reasonable.Only when Yuan Shi-kai urgently needed British support for his imperial program,Chinese policy lost its earlier momentum and became more conciliatory.Even so,Yuan Shi-kai still hoped to retain a larger area than what Britain was willing to let China hold in eastern Tibet as a buffer zone between British sphere of influence in Tibet and Sichuan,on which British ultimately can't make concession.