First it invaded and brutally occupied Tibet, destroying the Buddhist fabric of Tibetan society, enslaving the Tibetan people by installing an army of occupation. Then recently it imposed a high-tech surveillance system, including facial-recognition coverage that monitors and records every public location and movement. Not content with such oppression Tibetans are forced into concentration settlements, while Tibet’s children are brainwashed daily into regarding themselves as patriotic Chinese citizens.
Now China’s regime has unleashed another campaign designed to tighten its hold over each and every Tibetan household. Teams of loan-sharks from the Bank of China are targeting villages in Kongpo region of occupied Tibet supposedly offering ‘financial knowledge’. This initiative is of course not about information provision (nor evidence of personal prosperity) but seeks to bind Tibetan families with loans and debts, of course behind the scenes lurks the Chinese authorities who authorized this latest campaign.
A great quiz question for you, what is the national animal of Tibet? Too easy right? Well the Yak, once critical to the nomadic traditions and lives of the majority Tibetan population, no longer enjoys the open grasslands, freely moving from Winter and Summer pasture. Like Tibet’s herders it too has been incarcerated.
Readers and subscribers of our Blog will know that we’ve reported on how Tibetan nomads are being forced from their lands and homes by the Chinese regime into concentration settlements. What happens to the many herds of Yaks left behind you may wonder?
They are confiscated and sold off at knockdown cost to Chinese-owned companies, who fence the Yaks, mass breed them for slaughter. Apart from meat and leather, textile and medicinal products are processed. These are then marketed and distributed across occupied Tibet and sold to Tibetans at a considerable profit.
Not content with destroying the lifestyle of Tibet’s nomads the Chinese regime and equally corrupt companies are profiting from the theft and sale of Yaks and related products. As always it is the Tibetan people who are exploited. With those detained in newly built ‘socialist paradise villages’ having to buy Yak meat, sourced from herds which once had been theirs for generations!
Eastern Tibet’s forested river valleys are being stripped of trees by Chinese logging companies
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You know the history, unless of course educated within the US system, but it goes like this.Europeans invade and colonize lands while suppressingindigenous people. The foreign colonizers increase in numbers expanding military, political and economic control, while at the same time waging a war of cultural genocide against the original inhabitants. Having established dominance they then set about exploiting natural resources, causing widespread environmental damage and pollution. With the progression of laws and regional and national democratic process eventually various rights and protections are approved, including the establishment of national parks. Protected for the benefit of the now firmly-in-control citizen and also to conserve the environment and ecology. Meanwhile beyond the boundaries(and in cases, within) of such protected areas corporations arefree to pollute, degrade and destroy in the pursuit of profit.
The surface water of Tibet is being increasingly polluted by Chinese mining projects and unregulated factories
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Now exchange the title United States of America with occupied Tibet, and a similar process is underway, administered by a brutal Chinese regime. Which as with the emergent political establishment of the USA, regards itself as having some inalienableclaim not that of a god, but through a falsified history, infused with delusion. The outcomes, however, are similar, not completely, but with serious environmental impacts, in which the Tibetan people, oppressed, marginalized and without political authority or freedom can only watch.
The salt lakes of Western Tibet’s Ngari region are being targeted by Chinese companies seek to extract rare metals
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Once, pristine lakes and riverspolluted, mountains sacred to Tibetan traditions minedintooblivion, forested areas transformed intodeserts, atmospheric and ground pollution by asbestos and uranium mining and increased NO2 levels from cars and trucks. But don’t worry folks, just when you would be forgiven in concluding that the Chinese regime didn’t give a damn about the environment in Tibet its propaganda ministry announced recently that a number of national parks were being considered for the region.Guess we just didn’t give Xi Jinping and his regime sufficient credit, right?
Tibet’s grasslands are being being fenced off and denuded, drilled and polluted for gas and oil.
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These proposalsare of course, like all those issued by the Chinese authorities, saturated with political concerns and priorities. They also serve a clear propaganda aim. To convince those reading such reports in the West that China’s intentions inside occupied Tibet are honorable and respectful of the Tibetan environment. Not sure if that’ll work!Meanwhile, the ecocide against Tibet continues. As Tibetans, their landstolen, and culture enslaved (forcefully replaced by an increasingly dominant Han Chinese presence) face a dangerous and fragile future.
There’s only one outcome which could halt the wholesale degradation of Tibet’s environment and establish genuine respect and responsible stewardship of that beautiful and ecologically vital land. That would require national freedom for the Tibetan people!
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