Tibetans live in Tibet, to state the obvious. NonTibetans struggle with the altitude and extreme cold of the Tibetan Plateau, and a diet that has little to offer beyond fatty meat, dairy products and barley, surely conducive to heart disease. Han Chinese struggle to survive in Tibet, and struggle even harder to not only […]
Month: December 2015
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CHINA IN PARIS: IMAGE AND REALITY
CHINA FIRES UP CLIMATE TALKS In the first days of the Paris global climate treaty negotiations, China had a dream run, no longer the villain obstinately undermining any agreement, as happened in 2009 in Copenhagen, the last time the world tried to agree on what to do. China has had six years to project […]