Inventing a low-altitude economy in high-altitude Tibet The genius of capitalism goes beyond endless invention of new products and new markets. China’s state capitalism, especially its civil-military fusion campaign 军工协会 , is capable of inventing entirely new asset classes, based on inventing new human needs. Who knew that China is in need of military drones designed […]
Tibetans need more friends, new friends. Environmentalists might seem unlikely right now as friends of Tibet. Isn’t China making the most of its dominance of the tech of green energy, including solar, wind turbines, hydro dams and power grids? Isn’t Tibet China’s showroom for how fast and completely it can transition out of old […]
CAMPAIGNING TO OVERWHELM TIBET AND BEDAZZLE THE WORLD China’s plan to capture the greatest rivers of Tibet is the direct outcome of the US/China breakup. The Yarlung Tsangpo is being turned into an extraction enclave because China plans to use far more electricity, in order to outpace the US. A megaproject that for decades languished, […]
LOCKED China’s Five-Year Plan that runs from 2026 to 2030 locks Tibet into China as never before. In Lhasa, in August 2025, Xi Jinping named the two biggest infrastructure projects of the coming Five-Year Plan that arterially bind Tibet to China: “We must advance the construction of major projects such as the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower […]
INSPECTING, CORRECTING, DISCIPLINING, ERASING Core leader Xi Jinping was in Lhasa for just one August day, but he brought with him a top-level delegation, who then fanned out to each part of central Tibet, issuing clear instructions as to what must be followed. So we follow their progress through Shigatse, Lhoka, Nyingtri, Chamdo, Nagchu and […]
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 […]
\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 […]
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 […]
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 […]