Posted on 08/09/2024 11:15:54 PM PDT by Cronos
Qionglin New Village sits deep in the Himalayas, just three miles from a region where a heavy military buildup and confrontations between Chinese and Indian troops have brought fears of a border war.
The land was once an empty valley, more than 10,000 feet above the sea, traversed only by local hunters. Then Chinese officials built Qionglin, a village of cookie-cutter homes and finely paved roads, and paid people to move there from other settlements.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, calls such people “border guardians.” Qionglin’s villagers are essentially sentries on the front line of China’s claim to Arunachal Pradesh, India’s easternmost state, which Beijing insists is part of Chinese-ruled Tibet.
Many villages like Qionglin have sprung up. In China’s west, they give its sovereignty a new, undeniable permanence along boundaries contested by India, Bhutan and Nepal.
..The mapping reveals that China has put at least one village near every accessible Himalayan pass that borders India, as well as on most of the passes bordering Bhutan and Nepal,
..Indian officials have previously noted “infrastructure construction activity” by China along the border. Local leaders in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh have complained to The Times that China was slowly cutting away small pieces of Indian territory.
...China’s relocation policy is also a form of social engineering, designed to assimilate minority groups like the Tibetans into the mainstream. Tibetans, who are largely Buddhist, have historically resisted the Communist Party’s intrusive controls on their religion and way of life.
Images from the villages suggest that religious life is largely absent. Buddhist monasteries and temples are seemingly nowhere to be found
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10000’ altitude, yeah, that’s gonna work.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=high+altitude+syndrome+himalayas
Russia has moved the Tatar people to lay claim to Sevastopol territory in Crimea.
“China’s leader, Xi Jinping, calls such people “border guardians.” Qionglin’s villagers are essentially sentries on the front line of China’s claim to Arunachal Pradesh, India’s easternmost state, which Beijing insists is part of Chinese-ruled Tibet.”
Just as Scottish (and some German and Huguenot) settlers were used by the British colonies to act as a buffer between settled coastal plain and the American Indians.
Later that buffer kept moving west.
You would think that you never heard about 'Manifest Destiny' or reservations.
We have more in common with Russia than we do India/China. Let them go at it. Environmentalists will approve.
Maybe it’s just their first stop on their way to Mexico
“10000’ altitude, yeah, that’s gonna work.”
Leadville, Colorado seems to be doing OK.
I heard a few years ago, China built a city in Inner Mongolia with room for nearly half a million people, but the government couldn’t get folks to move there. Now with the thin air, these communities are probably in an environment that’s worse. What’s being done different this time?
A lot of Chinese pollution has been "exported" by the West. The polluting things the west needs are outsourced to China/India, so that Pollution increases there and lowers in the West.
Even then, per capita emissions in India are a fraction of that of the USA.
Say do what?
I’m saying the environmentalists will be happy. That’s because many will be killed-good for the environment.
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