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 […]
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 […]