[2][3][4] The territories were merely claimed by the ROC, but actually controlled by an independent Tibet with a government headed by the Dalai Lama in Lhasa.

It was expelled in July 1949 to make it more difficult for the Chinese Communists to establish an official presence.

[9] The PRC received early insight into the politics of Tibet by recruiting from MTAC members after the Kuomintang was defeated during the Chinese Civil War.

[12] In 1949, Tibet opened negotiations with the Chinese Communists, who were expected to win the civil war, and through them, with the future PRC.

[16] Social reform was not emphasized due to the difference in culture and the dependence of PRC institutions on local resources.

[17] The Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of Tibet (PCART) was formed in 1955 as an interim governing body.

ROC continued to operate MTAC, which undertook propaganda work among the Tibetan diaspora in India.

In 2007, ROC President Chen Shui-bian spoke at the International Symposium on Human Rights in Tibet and stated that his offices no longer treated exiled Tibetans as Chinese mainlanders.