Abstract:
It seems to have been an established view in Taiwan world of history that “the Tang Court used to unite the Uyghurs to resist against the Tibetans”, but this view doesn’t agree with the historical fact. The author argues that, first of all, in order to avoid fighting in two battlefields, the Tang court of the Li family managed to maintain its traditional fraternal relation with the Uyghurs to meet with needs for stallions and asked their relief troops to participate in putting down the rebellion to placate them from making trouble. Next, Considering historical experience, it can be inferred that the Uyghurs must by themselves intrude into western China to rival with the Tibetans. Therefore, it is not because of the Tang court’s or its diplomatic policy’s partiality, but because of the potential conflict between the Uyghurs and The Tibetans in primary interests. As the historical fact shows, the Tang court needed help from the Uyghurs rather for too much domestic troubles than for distracting the Tibetans. On the contrary, it needed help from the Tibetans first for improving the situation among the Tang court, the Uyghurs and the Tibetans and then for suppressing the rebellion.
