AlJazeera People Power - The Lhasa Express 08 Jun 2008
Peter Terpstra
AlJazeera People Power - The Lhasa Express 08 Jun 2008
China is incurring huge expenditure in transferring and consolidating the
Chinese population in Tibet. Massive investment has been made to build a
network of modern highways all over Tibet. China can also boast of having
laid the highest railway track in the world that connects Lhasa with
Beijing. In fact, China often complains that its civilizing mission in Tibet
is costing the government and people of China large amounts in terms of
subsidies to an under-developed region. According to official Chinese
statistics, the level of annual subsidies to the Tibetan Autonomous Region
(TAR) in the late 1980s was around 1 billion yuan or $270 million. However,
all the infrastructure that China has built in Tibet has not made the lives
of the native Tibetans any better; it has only taken the exploitative
apparatuses of the Chinese government deeper.
http://woodsmoke.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/how-china-is-plundering-the-
natural-resources-of-tibet/
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlrA8xc6X0
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3celj9imlbc
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAoX9s_UqhE
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Amnesty International Report 2009 on China:
http://report2009.amnesty.org/en/regions/asia-pacific/china