I think the "Free Tibet" movement was an orchestrated PR campaign that gave the CIA ammunition to show the evil criminality of China annexing a neighboring nation.

The official narrative is that the world had no logistical way of stopping it and bad PR was all they could muster.

While in reality ...

I would not doubt that the Kazarian run Clowns in America, State Department, et all gave the ok for China to annex Tibet in exchange for some other nefarious quid pro quo.

I think the "Free Tibet" movement was an orchestrated PR campaign that gave the CIA ammunition to show the evil criminality of China annexing a neighboring nation.

But it was all just typical mainstream News broadcast conditioning of letting the world know who the bad guys where. While in reality ...

I would not doubt that the Kazarian run Clowns in America did not give the ok for China to annex Tibet in exchange for some other nefarious quid pro quo. Either that or they had no logistical way of stopping it and bad PR was all they could muster.