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This brief discusses China's Tibet policy in the context of the country's strategic considerations. Beginning with the post-1949 Maoist period, the author shows how Chinese internal policy was geared towards periphery consolidation and how externally China sought to settle its sovereignty claims on Tibet vis-à-vis India and attain a stable frontier. She then examines China's Tibet policy in the post-1978 reform period and demonstrates how China has continued to address the Tibet issue from a security perspective.