longsword14
Banned
Which alliance would hold Tibet, an obvious hotspot, against China ?If Ukraine had been a member of NATO and was filled with American Air Bases, I think the Russians would've hesitated.
Britain never showed the kind of interest you imagine. It wasn't even Afghanistan which had British expeditions in the nineteenth century.
Younghusband went to Tibet only by the beginning of the 20th century, and even then Britain did not want to take all of Tibet away.
The only way you could keep China from TIbet is if a successor state of the Raj were interested and powerful enough.