Blog three in a series on Tibet in 2021 3/8 PROTECTING THE DRI CHU/YANGTZE Legislation to protect the biggest river in Tibet was passed into law by a session of the National People’s Congress in the last days of 2020 and takes effect March 1, 2021. The big question is whether it will protect the […]
Blog four in a series on Tibet in 2021 4/8 HYDROPOWER INDUSTRY REGAINS ITS MOJO China is far from done with dam building, on all the major rivers of Asia that rise in Tibet. This is more than a balancing of supply and demand; the dam plans were meant to knit Tibet into the fabric […]
Blog five in a series on Tibet in 2021 5/8 CLIMATE CHANGE & BIODIVERSITY 2021 is set to be a big year for climate and environment, with key global conferences held over from 2020. One such conference is to be held in China 17 to 30 May 2021 in Kunming, with side trips for delegates […]
Blog six in a series on Tibet in 2021 6/8 14TH FIVE YEAR PLAN plus GOALS FOR 2035 Seeing five years ahead, immediately after a global pandemic, might seem ambitious, but China’s leaders are more ambitious than that, announcing (at the CCP Fifth Plenum in October 2020) goals for 2035. Of necessity these goals are […]
Blog seven in a series on Tibet in 2021 7/8 CENSUS How many Tibetans are there? Tibetans in exile around the world number at most 150,000, perhaps less if we base it on the enrolment of at most 80,000 exiles registered to vote in recent exile parliamentary elections. But in Tibet, how many? For decades […]
Blog eight in a series on Tibet in 2021 8/8 PUTTING THESE TRENDS TOGETHER: Two divergent trends for 2021 are evident, if one looks at Tibet from Beijing, not only through the eyes of the CCP but of the established elite more broadly, including the security state, and liberal academics who are increasingly discovering much […]
MISINFORMATION OR DISINFORMATION? Within hours of a Global Times report that China is now committed to a massive hydro dam building project on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra, the story was picked up and amplified by media across Asia, from India to Hong Kong, The Hindu to South China Morning Post. Yet the Global Times 29 November […]
A blog series on grassroots village development and conservation partnerships between Tibetans and the few outsiders who deeply immerse in seeing through Tibetan eyes: featuring two women, warrior Pamela Logan and Lü Zhi of Peking University. DOING DEVELOPMENT 2020 STYLE When China builds a huge solar panel installation in Tibet, by far the biggest in […]
A blog series on grassroots village development and conservation partnerships between Tibetans and the few outsiders who deeply immerse in seeing through Tibetan eyes: featuring two women, bushido warrior Pamela Logan and Lü Zhi of Peking University. Blog two. TO CROSS THE RIVER, FEEL FOR THE NEXT STONE Pamela Logan’s narratives meander, across landscapes, across […]
Advocacy opportunities Occasionally, readers of the Rukor.org blog wonder what can be done in a practical way to right the wrongs China’s “development” agenda imposes on Tibet. One example is our recent blog series on trout manufacture in Amdo Chabcha, in 200 cages set into the nine reservoirs China has built on the Ma Chu/Yellow […]