The purpose of this project is not to preserve the environment but to drive the Tibetan nomads off these lands who have take care of the land for centuries. The PRC has already forcibly re-settled over 2 million Tibetan nomads who have lost their livelihood & traditional way of life. These grasslands were maintained by the nomads for centuries until China starting developing the Tibetan Plateau. This started the degradation of the grasslands. Tibetans have the right of self-determination. This is Tibetan land, not Chinese land. It belongs to the Tibetan people & the CCP has no legal or moral authority in Tibet. UNESCO should be ashamed it allowed the PRC to dupe them. Tibetans are paying the price for Chinese colonialism.
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“fully respect the will of local herders and their traditional culture, religious beliefs and lifestyle.” Another version of "one country two systems" until the PRC decides differerntly.
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Hello, which way is good for Tibetan antelopes, no-man's land, or free-roaming poachers?
Heritage sites are doomed thanks to the feet of tourists trampling across them. Better to leave them alone. But then, that won't happen, will it. It's all about money in the end.
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Any content with the words Tibet and China included provokes controversy as the comment section and the article demonstrates. But both have coexisted for millennia and have complex interactions, some joyful some not, with more to come for sure. This one is some NGO with mixed reactions of little consequence. The antelope will likely find their way across the road, but some nomads like to roam.
Any content with the words Tibet and China included provokes controversy as the comment section and the article demonstrates. But both have coexisted for millennia and have complex interactions, some joyful some not, with more to come for sure. This one is some NGO with mixed reactions of little consequence. The antelope will likely find their way across the road, but some nomads do like to roam.
The fantasy that the presence of the herders will actually protect the area
doesn't make any sense scientifically nor environmentally. Tibet is basically
a high and dry desert, and has been undergoing severe environmental
changes due to the global warming. Making certain sensitive areas off-limit
to human activities can help.
doesn't make any sense scientifically nor environmentally. Tibet is basically
a high and dry desert, and has been undergoing severe environmental
changes due to the global warming. Making certain sensitive areas off-limit
to human activities can help.
Tibet had no environmental problems until the PRC invaded in 1950 & started development against the wishes of the Tibetan people. The nomads lived here for centuries & their way of life actually preserved the grasslands. The degradation of the grasslands & Tibet's other environmental problems started under PRC rule. The CCP has been jailing & killing Tibetans for 60 years but they are also destroying Tibet's fragile environment.
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More than two decades ago, the PRC has used The World Bank to project its power into the Tibet SAR in the name of development like building high speed rail etc. It was a veiled attempt of covert ethnic dilution if not cleansing by way of importing a large amount of non native Chinese into the region.
To be clear, genuine development is a good thing. It promotes communication and understanding, peace and good will. By the same token, a cloistered community can lead to cultural stagnation. But UNESCO should be vary. PRC cannot be trusted. Do the readers know the Tibetan language is not taught locally? The aim of infrastructure development was done from the region's rich natural resources. The PRC's continuous resistance to the Dalai Lama's rapprochement attempts shows its real intention.
To be clear, genuine development is a good thing. It promotes communication and understanding, peace and good will. By the same token, a cloistered community can lead to cultural stagnation. But UNESCO should be vary. PRC cannot be trusted. Do the readers know the Tibetan language is not taught locally? The aim of infrastructure development was done from the region's rich natural resources. The PRC's continuous resistance to the Dalai Lama's rapprochement attempts shows its real intention.
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Bos – the Han who have moved to Tibet are definitely Chinese but more Tibetans live in their region of China than in Xizang (Tibet). On language you are correct, the schools press Mandarin but that practice is common you will find if you ask your Boston Irish what happen to their language when the English came, or any Native Americans about their schools. Dialects live at home but the scrip fades the Chinese intent.
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What is the relevance of your comment? That it's OK for China to do to Tibetans as the US did to Native American Indians? You're saying Chinese colonialism in Tibet is OK if the US did to it to the Native peoples of North America? Are you really trying to defend colonialism?
Common practice, power rules, does that come as surprise? There is in fact an advantage for children to Know the prevailing language in the 'country' they now live in. The Tibetans are spread our over an enormous area of Central and Western China and integrated into coexistence save a few autonomous ares.
Really, who knew 'protection' could be so complicated?!
"The letter said that China would 'fully respect the will of local herders and their traditional culture, religious beliefs and lifestyle.'”
Ask the Tibetan Buddhists from 1950 onward how that worked out.
Ask the Tibetan Buddhists from 1950 onward how that worked out.
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China's pitch for Unesco Heritage Status is packed full of rubbish and lies. There is absolutely NO way that the Chinese Communist Party will ever "fully respect the will of local herders and their traditional culture, religious beliefs, and lifestyle".
What an obvious and ugly lie!! China has never "respected" Tibet, and it never will. Mao invaded Tibet in 1959, taking the Country at gunpoint, and killing thousands of non-violent, non-aggressive Tibetans in the process. Thousands more Tibetans were put in prison for practicing their Buddhist faith. Display a picture of the Dali Lama, or fly a Tibetan flag anywhere in Communist China today, and you go to prison in very harsh conditions.
And, China is sure not "protecting antelope" with an exempted 2.5 mile wide highway and rail easement right up the middle of this "protected zone". That spells "development" in anyone's language. The Chinese Communist Party wants to parcel Tibet up even more - just as they are doing in Africa and South America.
The Chinese Communist Party crushes ANY Religion under it's boot heel. Many Buddhist Monks have "disappeared", like the 9 year old Panchen Lama. Tibetans today are not free to speak their language, or practice their religion openly. Their homeland was stolen and ruined. Tibetans live in constant fear of more brutality. The Chinese Communist Party's greed is endless.
Long live the Dali Lama. FREE TIBET !!
What an obvious and ugly lie!! China has never "respected" Tibet, and it never will. Mao invaded Tibet in 1959, taking the Country at gunpoint, and killing thousands of non-violent, non-aggressive Tibetans in the process. Thousands more Tibetans were put in prison for practicing their Buddhist faith. Display a picture of the Dali Lama, or fly a Tibetan flag anywhere in Communist China today, and you go to prison in very harsh conditions.
And, China is sure not "protecting antelope" with an exempted 2.5 mile wide highway and rail easement right up the middle of this "protected zone". That spells "development" in anyone's language. The Chinese Communist Party wants to parcel Tibet up even more - just as they are doing in Africa and South America.
The Chinese Communist Party crushes ANY Religion under it's boot heel. Many Buddhist Monks have "disappeared", like the 9 year old Panchen Lama. Tibetans today are not free to speak their language, or practice their religion openly. Their homeland was stolen and ruined. Tibetans live in constant fear of more brutality. The Chinese Communist Party's greed is endless.
Long live the Dali Lama. FREE TIBET !!
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"the old city of Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs, revered by Jews, Muslim and Christians as the burial place of Abraham."
It is Mearat ha-Machpelah, the Cave of the Doubles and not the Cave of Patriarchs, at least in Jewish tradition. This tradition has not only Abraham buried there, but also Adam and Eve, Sarah (with Abraham), Isaac and Rebecca and Jacob and Leah buried there (Rachel is buried according to tradition in Bethlehem, at "Rachel's Tomb).
It is Mearat ha-Machpelah, the Cave of the Doubles and not the Cave of Patriarchs, at least in Jewish tradition. This tradition has not only Abraham buried there, but also Adam and Eve, Sarah (with Abraham), Isaac and Rebecca and Jacob and Leah buried there (Rachel is buried according to tradition in Bethlehem, at "Rachel's Tomb).
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