« Сотрудники Института востоковедения РАН » [« Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Korea & Mongolia, S.L. Kuzmin, D.Sc. (Hist.), Ph.D. (Biol.), Principal Research Fellow »], sur ivran.ru
(en) Elliot Sperling, The History Boy, Rangzen Alliance, 24 juin 2010 : « Sautman is oblivious to all of this because he does not (and seems to feel no need to) go beyond the views from China. That the Tibetans and Mongols asserted in their 1913 treaty that they had emerged from under rule by the Manchu State and were thus no longer linked with China (Rgya-nag) is significant in terms of terminology. »
(en) Barry Sautman, “All that Glitters is Not Gold”: Tibet as a Pseudo-State 2009 : « Norbu claims Tibet had a mutual recognition treaty with Mongolia in 1913 and the Simla treaty of 1914 with Britain, but Tibet was not recognized by any established state in the modern era, the era that matters to the modern concept of statehood. Mongolia was not a recognized state in 1913. It proclaimed independence in late 1911, when many Chinese provinces and territories were declaring they were separate, because the Qing Dynasty had just collapsed. Mongolia was not recognized until decades later by Russia and China, the two states whose territories surround Mongolia, or by Japan, the power most interested in prying Mongolia loose from Russian and Chinese influence. The Soviet Union and ROC recognized Mongolia only in 1946 and the latter withdrew its recognition in 1953. It did not recognize Mongolia again until 2002. Japan recognized Mongolia in 1972; the US did so only in 1987. (...) The treaty [with Mongolia] was apparently inspired and executed with Russian interests at the fore; yet, whether that is so is not the main point, because Tibet and Mongolia were not recognized as states. Thus, for them to recognize each other had no more significance than the present-day mutual recognition by South Ossetia and Abhazia (...) ».
