There is nothing so attractive to Communist Party leaders as a new opportunity to display mastery. It may be the tech bro dream of closely monitoring the movements of individuals, each of them, at all times. It may be monitoring and manipulating the movement of clouds, making it rain when and where controllers decide, masters […]
MORE HYDRO DAMMING, POWER GRIDS & CLOUD SEEDING GEOENGINEERING IN TIBET Updating recent www.rukor.org reports: RUKOR ANALYSIS: New hydro dams on Tibetan rivers, new propaganda for geoengineering, by cloud seeding the source area of China’s great rivers in Tibet. China is already intervening on the ground in the huge Sanjiangyuan river source area, steadily depopulating […]
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN China is now ruled by the “Thought” of one man. Xi Jinping has thought about everything, as his multi-voluminous collected thoughts, translated now into many languages, weightily attest. Xi Jinping is now in charge of everything, in a position to enforce his thought on all under heaven who are under […]
DEVELOPMENT AS A TIBETAN HUMAN RIGHT Blogging on the one human right trumping all other rights: 1 of 2 What do we think when “China” and “human rights” arise in the same sentence? A storm cloud assembles: coercion, torture, denial, repression, closure, censorship, bullying. China’s record as a member of the UN Human Rights Council […]
IS TIBET DEVELOPED? Blogging on the one human right trumping all other rights: 2 of 2 China says it has developed Tibet, and uses its statistics on economic development of Tibet as justification for its repression of civil and political rights, as they are officially secondary, in China’s hierarchy of rights. China has issued official […]
BLOG ONE OF TWO ON RISK MANAGEMENT: Chinese style, Tibetan style When a corporation decides to float its shares on a stock exchange, potential investors have one simple question in mind: will I make money? Answering that question these days brings in an entire industry of risk analysts, financial advisers and their impressive graphs rating […]
BLOG TWO OF TWO ON RISK MANAGEMENT: Tibetan style China’s enthusiasm for controlling risks is not the Tibetan way. What is most striking about contemporary Tibetans is that they deal with risks, including the risk of the party state’s force majeure, neither with zealous fixation on control, nor the bitterness of the Uighur resistance. Tibetans, […]
The Tibet lithium moment If there’s one topic this blog has come back to again and again, it is lithium. We have been told many times that, as electric vehicles become a big market, demand for this lightest of metals will boom, and Tibet is at the forefront of lithium deposits, both as brines collecting […]
BLOG ONE OF THREE on WORSENING OZONE HOLE OVER TIBET Official China is fixated on controlling everything, including the weather, even when science struggles to provide methods for doing so. China boasts of doing weather modification in Tibet, having spent six decades trying to seed rain over water catchments to compensate for lowland China’s wasteful […]
BLOG TWO OF THREE ON THE WORSENING OZONE HOLE OVER TIBET What is at stake is the viability of human life, all sentient life, indeed all life in Tibet, right across the Tibetan Plateau. Life on earth exists because life created the atmosphere of the planet, generating the benign environment for the flourishing of all […]