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Oct 2022
20m 12s

Episode 7.7 Chinese Civil War

Paul Kendrick
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The Chinese Communists saw Tibet as part of China.  Talks between the Chinese and Tibetan Government failed to reach an agreement.  The People's Liberation Army defeats a Tibetan Army led by Ngapoi, who would become an ally of the Chinese as they took control of Tibet, his biography up to 1954. is given.

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