Tsewang Dorji Jeshong (TPI) examines how border villages, dams, roads, railways, & airports across Tibet are strengthening Beijing’s strategic reach along the India–Tibet border. www.firstpost.com/opinion/chin... #borderization

Tsewang Dorji Jeshong (TPI) examines how border villages, dams, roads, railways, & airports across Tibet are strengthening Beijing’s strategic reach along the India–Tibet border. www.firstpost.com/opinion/chin... #borderization
@jleibold.bsky.social: Tibet’s 600+ xiaokang border villages are not simply development projects but “infrastructure nationalism”: settlement, subsidies, surveillance, & military-civil integration used to hardwire PRC sovereignty into the frontier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #borderization
As Xi arrives in New Delhi, a new @the-independent.com exclusive documents rapid Chinese infrastructure expansion along the disputed Arunachal Pradesh–Tibet frontier. @vantortech.bsky.social imagery www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/i... #borderization
Meanwhile the ground moves one way. 628 xiaokang (小康) border villages across 21 #Tibet border counties, roughly 30bn yuan, dual-use by design, & filling with residents. Reopening a trade pass is reversible in an afternoon. A settled village is not. #borderization www.nytimes.com/interactive/...