(TibetanReview.net, Dec01, 2018) – Humans had lived on the Tibetan Plateau as much as 40,000 years ago, whereas previous studies suggested that this had happened at most 15,000 years ago, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Nov 30, citing a research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their finding, published […]

  (TibetanReview.net, Nov29, 2018) – Prominent Chinese scientists have dismissed as unfeasible and “delusional” their government’s ambitious project to artificially increase rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau to boost water supply for China, reported caixinglobal.com Nov 27. The plateau region is home to the headwaters of major Asian rivers that include […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul19, 2018) – China has on Jul 18 published a white paper on what it calls ecological progress on the Tibetan Plateau region, saying it is still one of the cleanest on earth amid growing ecological awareness in the region. The exile Tibetan establishment, on the other hand, routinely […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb22, 2018) – Citing the need to confront threat from India, China said Feb 20 that it was upgrading its Western Theater Command, with its official military website posting four high resolution images of military aircraft involved in military training activities over the Tibetan plateau. The pictures posted on […]