INAUSPICIOUS RAINBOW FISH OF TIBET Blog one of five on an industry totally new to Tibet: mass manufacture of millions of alien trout in hydro dams on the Ma Chu/Yellow River This is a fish story with the lot, which is why it’s a long read. It’s got predation, pollution, protein, pristine rivers, and post-pandemic […]
Blog two of five on an industry totally new to Tibet: mass manufacture of millions of alien trout in hydro dams on the Ma Chu/Yellow River Of the many dams China has built athwart the Ma Chu in Amdo, by far the biggest in size is the highest, Longyangxia, although other dams below generate more […]
Blog three of five on an industry totally new to Tibet: mass manufacture of millions of alien trout in hydro dams on the Ma Chu/Yellow River URBAN DEMAND, URBAN CONFUSION While trout production in Tibet has taken off, there has been much trouble at the far end of the commodity chain, among wealthy urban consumers […]
Blog four of five on an industry totally new to Tibet: mass manufacture of millions of alien trout in hydro dams on the Ma Chu/Yellow River CONSUMING TROUT AND SALMON SHOWS YOU ARE CIVILISED The mean price paid by consumers for salmon sold in Shanghai supermarkets in 2017 was RMB 176 per kilo, almost $26, […]
Blog five of five on an industry totally new to Tibet: mass manufacture of millions of alien trout in hydro dams on the Ma Chu/Yellow River NORMAL FISH FOR NORMAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORMAL MARKETS OF URBAN MODERNITY As the world (hopefully) emerges from pandemic, the landscape has changed, there is no return to the old […]
ON THE RADAR OR OVER THE HORIZON? TIBET IN A SECURITIZED WORLD In recent times, many colour revolutions have erupted. In so many countries predatory regimes afflict their own citizens. They routinely and coercively extract rents from the poor to transfer wealth and concentrated power to the rich. The point at which oppressed populations lose […]
Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development SEVENTH TIBETWORK FORUM AUGUST 2020 On 28 and 29 August 2020 there was a Work Forum on Tibet, in Beijing. What is a work forum? In any large country, with many government departments and levels of government from township and local county up to national, […]
GOING STRATEGIC IN THE BADLANDS China’s latest railway across Tibet into the Xinjiang desert China’s railway builders boast they are not only part of the Belt and Road, they are the Belt and Road. They also boast that for a long time they have been listed in the Fortune 500 top companies worldwide and have […]
HAN SELF-RIGHTEOUS RAGE IN XINJIANG ONE of four blogposts on authoritarian China’s delusional fixation on predictive policing Why has China coercively punished Uighurs more than Tibetans? This is a question worth exploring in depth, as some reasons are obvious, some need a lot of thought. One answer is that Tibetans have done a lot of […]
HAN SELF-RIGHTEOUS RAGE IN XINJIANG TWO of four blogposts on authoritarian China’s delusional fixation on predictive policing CITIZENS ARE THE PREDICTABLE ENEMY In China, this quest to identify the enemy has deep roots. It is almost 100 years since Mao wrote one of his most famous essays: “Who are our enemies, and who are our […]