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>> China took the himalaya for this very reason years ago. Fresh water is more important than the dalai lama. Tibet is a cold desert or tundra. Please don't sp
by fermienrico 9y ago
>> China took the himalaya for this very reason years ago. Fresh water is more important than the dalai lama.
Tibet is a cold desert or tundra. Please don't spin this around. China has an abundant land elsewhere outside of Tibet which provides plenty of rainfall. China's intentions and justification for their relationship with Tibet is largely political and strategic.
- banku_brougham 9y agoThank you, i’m embarrassed to say i fell for it. Now i have to research and find out the likely truth.
- sametmax 9y agoEasy. Take google map. Look for the blue areas in tibet. Look at the number and size of them. No factories here. Just clean water. A territory, btw, next to india.
- banku_brougham 9y ago>next to India. Ha, I guess if you can say crossing the Himalayas is next to anything. I’m trying to imagine the trans-Annapurna pipeline right now. Also, I’ve Nepalese friends who would tell me Nepal is actually between Tibet and India. About those blue areas though, yeah it has a Minnesota-looking tapestry of lakes spread out over 1000 miles, about 300 mi north of the mountain range.
- sametmax 9y agoWhen your territory is saturated with pollution, rainfall is not going to help. Air is already a problem is some parts of China. So water ? They will eventually need to choose between their industries and water. And they will choose their industries. Their gov knew this, and made a bet on Tibet. Now, because India gets most of Tibet's water, they had to hide the plan behind something that made sense. And they did had a problem with part of the Buddhist community, so they killed 2 birds with one stone.