TIBET’S 9 RIVERS ASIA’S WATER TOWER AT RISK
NASA Photograph of the TIBETAN PLATEAU
TIBET - Land of Snows, Crown of Shiva, The Western Treasure House…
•The Tibetan Plateau is a unique geomorphic entity, its 46,000 glaciers comprise the Earth’s third largest ice mass. This “Third Pole” is a vital piece of the planet’s ecosystem, filled with pristine riches of minerals, timber and above all, water.
•There is a 9th Century Tibetan Prophecy: “If the Chinese Armies ever capture Tibet, the snow mountains will turn black and the clear waters will turn red with blood.”
Topographical map of Eurasia – The Tibetan Plateau
TIBET: The Headwaters of Asia’s 9 Great Rivers
CHINA CONTROLS THE HEADWATERS OF ASIA: TIBET
Tibet’s 46,000 glaciers comprise the Earth’s third largest ice mass. This “Third Pole” is the fount of the Yangtze, Yellow, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Chenab, Sutlej, Salween and Mekong, which flow through 11 nations, the main source of fresh water for three billion people.
Today, all but one Asia’s great rivers – the Ganges – is controlled at its Tibetan headwaters by the CCP and the PLA
THE PRICE OF APPEASEMENT
Since 1951 the People’s Republic of China has raped and pillaged Tibet without impediment or penalty
The world will pay a high price for IGNORING the Chinese occupation of the high plateau
Genghiz Khan said:
“HE WHO CONTROLS TIBET CONTROLS THE WORLD”
WAR ZONE ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
NASA satellite photograph of the TIBETAN PLATEAU
Map of historical Tibet ‘s “Chokla Sum – The 3 provinces: Amdo, Kham and Ustang.
Chinese Communist Conquest and Partition of TIBET
MAO’S ANNEXATION of TIBET, EAST TURKESTAN and INNER MONGOLIA doubled the size of the CHINESE COMMUNIST EMPIRE by 1951. Since 2008 CCP has intensified “Sinification” of its “minority peoples: Uigher, Tibetan, Mongol, Wei. citing how “ethnicity” led to the dissolution of the former Soviet Union.
TIBET IS A WAR ZONE: TIME MAGAZINE wrote that the wave of self-immolations in Tibet was the "Most under-reported story of 2012 Left, Dorjee, an 18 year-old Tibetan , self-immolated in Ngaba, Amdo, on March 5th, 2012, to protest Chinese rule. Right, Sonam Dhargyal, a 44-year-old farmer, shouted for the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet before setting himself on fire in Rongbo in Eastern Tibet on March, 17, 2012
A major source of conflict in Tibet, which receives negligible international coverage, is the covert history of China’s rape and pillage of Tibet’s lands and waters.
The elemental facts about Tibet’s size, wealth of natural resources, and its strategic location on the Eurasian Continent, are not widely known. Satellite images and maps of the Tibetan Plateau reveal the enormous resource and strategic advantage gained by its capture, and how control over Tibet’s land, water and minerals is vital to Communist China’s quest for domination of Eurasia and global hegemony.
CHINA’S OCCUPATION of TIBET has created a looming environmental catastrophe for the nations of Asia, the world’s most populous continent, with the theft of Tibet’s waters – Asia’s 9 great Rivers.
CHINA has over 300,000 dams, the world #1 dam builder…
HYDRO-DAMS in on the Drichu, Dzachu and Gyalmo Nyulchu…
CHINESE Hydro-dam on the Sengye Kabab….the INDUS
DIVERTING the YARLUNG SANGPO, the BRAHMAPUTRA
Xiaowan Dam, Mekong River, Yunnan( Kham) Capacity 4,200 MW, wall-height: 292m
THE THREE PHASES of the CHINESE COMMUNIST OCCUPATION of TIBET
PHASE 1: 1950’s – 1960’s: MILITARY INVASION
From 1951-56, Khampa Warriors in Eastern Tibet resist PLA aggression. THE PLA sends reinforcements, thousands of refugees from Tibet’s eastern provinces, Kham and Amdo are driven into Utsang, Tibet’s central province.
•1957: the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama go to Varanasi, India for Buddha Jayanti: HHDL asks Nehru for refuge to expose Chinese atrocities in Tibet. Cho EnLai tells Nehru to send HHDL back to Tibet. 1959; HHDL escapes to India. PLA troops slaughter, loot and raze over 6,000 monasteries. The PLA advances to the borders of India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal.
•In 1962 China invades India from Tibet and occupies large swaths of Indian territory, India is defeated, China commences its military consolidation the Tibetan plateau.
•1963: Tibet is sealed behind the Bamboo Curtain and caught in the catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward, wherein 60-80 million people die under Mao’s adoption of the Soviet model of collectivized farming. 1.5 to 2 millions Tibetans, in a population of 6 million, are killed through armed conflict and famine.
•PLA Engineers build military roads across and install military bases and armed encampments across the Tibetan Plateau. Millions of acres of virgin forest are cut and shipped to China.
CHINA IN TIBET: Phase 2: 1970-1980’s: The DEATH of MAO and the rise of DENG
•ORPHANS OF THE COLD WAR: Tibet is imprisoned behind the Bamboo Curtain throughout the Cultural Revolution.
•1976 Mao Zedong dies. 1981 Deng Xiaoping comes to power. Deng launches the policy of “Reform and Opening Up”. China builds the Friendship Highway linking Lhasa and Kathmandu.
•1980; Hu Yabong visits Tibet and writes his famous White Paper condemning China’s treatment of the Tibetan people. The Deng regime relaxes restrictions on Tibetan religion and culture. In 1981, China issues the first tourist visas to Tibet for western travelers.
•MILITARY ROADS built by the PLA across Tibet allow massive population transfer of Han Chinese onto the Tibetan Plateau.
•The roads also facilitate a 2nd exodus of refugees to escape from Tibet.
•1987: Anti-Chinese demonstrations break out in Lhasa. For the first time since the Chinese invasion, tourists capture images of extreme military repression.
• These images reach the international press; China’s Tibet is EXPOSED
•CHINA DECLARES MARTIAL LAW and expels all tourists and witnesses.
CHINA IN TIBET: Phase 3: 1990’s 2000’s MINES, DAMS and WAR GAMES
•1988-1989; MORE demonstrations in Lhasa are captured by tourist cameras. China starts restricting western visitors by periodically banning all tourism.
•1989: The Berlin Wall falls, the Tiananmen Square Massacre follows. The death of Hu Yabong summons millions of Chinese mourners into the streets of Beijing. Gorbachev arrives in Beijing, students from Beijing University launch a hunger strike in support of democratic reforms in China’s government. After a month-long stand-off, on June 4th 1989, Deng orders PLA troops into the square to crush the protestors. Thousands of unarmed Chinese citizens are slaughtered.
•In response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, HH Dalai Lama is awarded the 1989 Noble Peace Prize. The true history of the China’s rape and pillage of Tibet is exposed. BUT as HHDLs’ star rises, the CCP cracks down harder on the people of Tibet.
•1995 : Despite pressure from the Senate and rights groups, US President Bill Clinton grants China MFN: Most Favored Nation Trading Status, removing all trade sanctions imposed on the PRC after The Tiananmen Square Massacre. China AT ONCE implements the Strike Hard” Policy: banning all images of HH Dalai Lama, enforcing Communist Re-education at monasteries, aggressive suppression of Tibetan ethnic identity.
•2000: China launches XI BU DAI FA: ”The Opening Up of the Western Regions” a vast industrial development plan, to exploit and extract Tibet’s vast natural resources, facilitated by rail and roadway expansion.
•2001: 9/11 strikes New York City. In response, the US invades Afghanistan and Iraq. China fades from international attention and scrutiny and accelerates exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources. Chinese engineers launch construction of huge hydro dams on Tibet’s rivers, which flow into South and Southeast Asia.
•2006: The Qinghai–Xizang railway OPENS in LHASA, bringing millions of Chinese migrants into Tibet. The railroad also facilitates the transport of minerals, stone and lumber from Tibet, and brings over 250,000 Chinese engineers into Tibet each year.
•2010: China announces completion of 6 military airfields in Utsang, and debuts a new fleet of drone aircraft, with technology the US claims has been stolen by Chinese spies. A 2012 US Dept. of Defense report to Congress on China's military capabilities notes Beijing's push to develop longer-range unmanned aircraft, including armed drones, "expands China's options for long-range reconnaissance and strike.”
WATER IN THE 21st CENTURY
•Tibet’s waters flow through 11 countries, where population growth and industrial development is projected to double within 50 years. The combined effects of rapid development, desertification and water scarcity has already created extreme cycles of droughts and floods, food shortages and pandemics. The Chinese mainland is also imperiled: Yangtze River water flows are at their lowest level on record. Yet despite irrefutable evidence of the dangers of over-exploiting Tibet’s water resources, the Chinese government will not modify or downscale plans for dams, tunnels, railroads and highways across the Tibetan plateau.
•The PRC administers a huge military infrastructure across the Tibetan Plateau, which gives China a continuous border with Thailand, Burma, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, and is now filled with military airfields and PLA battalions. In the coming age of “water wars”, China has a firm hand on the water tower of Asia.
TIBET’S UNTAPPED NATURAL RESOURCES
Map of permafrost in TIBET
CHINA’S ATTACKS on the DALAI DALAI LAMA SUBVERT DISCUSSION of the EXPLOITATION of TIBET’S LANDS
•In 2014 Chinese official media stated: “The Dalai Lama remind us of the uncontrolled and cruel Nazi during the second world war … How similar it is to the Holocaust committed by Hitler on the Jewish!”
•Many diplomats and journalists are puzzled by China’s obsessive demonization of the Dalai Lama, the distinguished Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, but the Politburo’s hysteria works, squelching any and all rational discussion of China’s exploitation of Tibet’s resources, and subverting attention away from how Chinese mines and dams have created an environmental and military crisis in Asia, the world’s most populous continent.
CCP PROPAGANDA KILLS ALL DISCUSSION of WHAT CHINA IS DOING IN TIBET: MINES, DAMS and WAR GAMES.
WHO CONTROLS THE GLOBAL NARATIVE ABOUT TIBET? The CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
•Chinese propaganda has been HIGHLY EFFECTIVE. Until the Lhasa Uprising of 1987, Chinese propaganda about “liberating Tibet from a cruel feudal serfdom” was universally accepted, by diplomats, journalists and academics.
•THE SHANGRILA SYNDROME, the pervasive stereotype that Tibet is a mystical paradise. Jonathan Green, author of “Murder in the High Himalaya”, says “no journalist would ever write about Gaza or Rwanda the way they do about Tibet: The Tibet story is perceived as a cute little fairyland, when what is going in Tibet is bloody serious stuff”.
CHINA’S CAMPAIGN to ISOLATE HH DALAI LAMA
China has largely succeeded in its mission to ISOLATE the Dalai Lama by punishing heads of state who meet with the distinguished Nobel Laureate, and threatening any institution that invites him to speak.
THE SLANDER STICKS: In the 1990’s, Rupert Murdoch called HHDL “a monk in Gucci loafers”
In January 2009, after being sworn in as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s first official statement reads: “We will not allow Tibet and human rights to interfere with our close relationship with China.
In October 2009, after receiving the Nobel peace Prize, US President Obama announced that he would not receive the Dalai Lama at the White House. This sends a message around the globe; world leaders shun the Dalai Lama and ignore the crisis in Tibet, effectively killing the international Tibet movement.
CHINESE THREATS WORK
•In 2011 China successfully pressured South Africa into denying a visa to HHDL to celebrate Bishop Tutu’s 80th birthday.
•A study from the University of Gottingen in Germany of countries whose top leadership met with the Dalai Lama, showed that they incurred an average 8.1 percent loss in exports to China in the two years following the meeting. Called the "Dalai Lama Effect," the found the negative impact on exports began when Hu Jintao took office in 2002.
•In Nov. 2011, the EU asked China to bail out the Eurozone. China agreed, on two conditions: lift all arms embargos to China and NEVER press the PRC on human rights. THE EU SAID YES: French President Sarkozy hosts PRC DICTATOR HU JINATO at a STATE DINNER TO CELEBRATE PRC-EU FRIENDSHIP.
Since 2016 Xi Jingping has consolidated Tibet and Xinjiang into a joint Western Theater of Command for the PLA to project force into Southeast, South and Central Asia
Expansion of Chinese railroads linking Tibet to the mainland
China’s plans for the world’s longest railroad, facilitated by the Belt & Road Initiative
New CCP funded Dam projects in Tibet and Laos on the MEKONG
CCP Power Projection in Asia – Regions of Conflict
CCP Claims on Indian Territory and the Himalayan Belt – TIBET’S 5 FINGERS
China’s claims on Indian territory – points of conflict
The man CHINA FEARS MOST…HH Dalai Lama with Tibetan Refugees in Dharamshala, India, 1961
LONG LIVE HH DALAI LAMA FREE TIBET * FREE CHINA
