WORLD’S BIGGEST HYDROPOWER MEGA DAM? For thousands of years fabulists, fantasists, visionaries have felt attracted to Tibet as the locus of their fabulations. From the giant gold digging ants of Herodotus, robotically delivering buried gold for human consumption, through to Madame Blavatsky, Nicholas Roerich, Nazi SS-Untersturmfuhrer Ernst Schäfer, and Lobsang Rampa, who could resist the […]
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CHASING PHANTOMS
\METOK མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། / MOTUO 墨脱 Of the many locations worldwide almost no-one has heard of, few are named in media worldwide as often as Metok མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། / Motuo 墨脱. This is puzzling, since Motuo 墨脱, a pinyin Chinese mangling of the Tibetan Metok, remains end of the line, the very last of China’s 1350 counties […]
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FEARFUL HEROES
INTO THE CANYON ENERGIES OF LANDS BEING BORN Chasing the putative mega hydro dam supposedly due for construction in the remotest corner of the Tibetan Plateau, we (and China’s busy tunnellers) find ourselves in landscapes of extraordinary energy, within an axial pivot of explosively highly pressurised rock, as subterranean worlds are reborn anew. As below, […]
Cancellation of schooling in Tibetan language, culture, civilisation as lived, embodied realities in the lives of Tibetans, has been the policy core of China’s ethnic policy 2.0 for the past 15 years. Yet China finds it hard to shift the mentality of those stubborn red-faced Tibetans. Suffocating Tibetan identity, social engineering of Tibetans so […]
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CHASING PHANTOMS
BORROW MY BOAT Everyone knows China spreads its propaganda messaging by relying on its international friends, who lend their credibility and reputation to amplify the work of the CCP United Front. But China has more than one propaganda strategy, including how to use your enemies to boost your voice. It has two pillars. “China sees […]
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FUTURE OF TIBET
At the end of 2024 an intensive scenario planning exercise on the future of Tibet was published. A hundred young exiled Tibetans gathered in several sessions to plot a wide range of scenarios for the year 2040, ahead far enough to be different, close enough to be imaginable. The scenarios ranged widely from the […]
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CHINA’S DEVELOPMENTALIST STATE
This blog series reflects on where Tibet is headed, propelled to its’ destination, not only by China’s coercions but increasingly by China’s money and urban comforts. Reflecting back on the past 45 years, since communism, revolution and Cultural Revolution crashed, and ahead to the momentum China imposes. Those 45 years are also the years I […]
TECHNOLOGIES OF MAKING TIBET CHINA’S Blog 1 of 4 overviewing China’s long term strategies Almost all of China’s interventions in Tibet share a common purpose, very seldom named. How can we sum up what China does, in the name of development, What is the common thread, over decades, shaping what China does, in the name […]
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UNBALACED, UNSUSTAINABLE, UNCOORDINATED
THIRD CCP PLENUM 2024 OPTS FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL To be Premier of China is a thankless task. Nominally the head of the entire state apparatus, in charge of the executive that plans and implements all policies, the Premier would seem to be one of the most powerful people on the planet. Yet his […]
MATERIAL WORLD A blog series on China’s lust for lithium from Tibet, blog 1 of 3 A concise version of this blog was published by Turquoise Roof. If you have read that report, do read on for further insights into China’s long term strategy for global dominance of all new industries, and in-depth analysis of […]