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Tag: Qinghai

The Tibetan plateau is strategically located. Photo: AFP
Posted inOpinion

What Xi didn’t say about national parks on Tibetan Plateau

by Dechen Palmo June 28, 2022June 28, 2022

At the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping proudly announced the establishment of his country’s first five national parks. What he did not acknowledge in his speech were the human-rights violations that underpinned the establishment of at least one of these parks, Sanjiangyuan (Three River Source) National Park on the […]

Posted inChina

China’s trek to Mars begins in frigid Qinghai

by Asia Times staff March 7, 2019February 18, 2020
Crescent Moon Lake in the Gobi Desert in Gansu province. Water is more scarce in northern China as rivers and glaciers dry up because of climate change and dams and pollution affect waterways. Photo: iStock
Posted inAfghanistan, AT Finance, Beijing, China, India, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Water crisis puts trade war into perspective for China

by Asia Times staff November 23, 2018February 18, 2020
A train runs on the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world's highest rail line. Photo: Jan Reurink/Wikimedia
Posted inBeijing, Chengdu, China, Guangzhou, Shanghai, World

Full speed ahead for rail services to the Roof of the World

by Asia Times staff August 14, 2018February 18, 2020
PLA troops patrol the Tibet-Qinghai railway. Photo: PLA Daily
Posted inBeijing, China, India, South Asia, World

Extra sausages and oxygen: PLA spoils high-altitude troops

by Asia Times staff August 14, 2018February 18, 2020
The Qaidam Basin in the northwestern province of Qinghai has the most Mars-like environment in China. Photo: Xinhua
Posted inBeijing, China, European Union, Russia, World

Quest for red planet starts from Mars-like base in Qinghai

by Asia Times staff January 17, 2018February 18, 2020
PLA soldiers inhale pure oxygen at a camp on the Tibetan Plateau. Photo: PLA Daily
Posted inBeijing, China, India, South Asia

PLA troops sent to China’s high plateaus get an oxygen boost

by Asia Times staff November 9, 2017February 18, 2020

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