I'd like to ally with Bomladoy and Rhun in a 3-way defense to slow the oncoming conquest of the Undying Sun and will give Rhun a decent amount of gold and Bomladoy the militia it needs to fend off bandits if we slow them down, lol.
The Tibetans are better architects, have about the same resources, and we got a good head start on them and there's is bigger. There is no way they can finish first, it's just illogical unless we destroyed ours and started over