Third Pole
a benign concept honouring the Tibetan Plateau in a tripolar world, as important as the Arctic or Antarctic. Being benign, it has been adopted both by Chinese scientists promoting their research expeditions in Tibet,
wasteland
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Number One Water Tower of China
Of China’s 31 provinces, few languished as much as Qinghai (in Tibetan Amdo), widely seen as a backwater with little to offer, not so long ago a penal colony, cold and a hinterland of poverty. Provincial leaders saw Tibet Autonomous Region,
Harsh environment
Taking as normal the climate of the North China plan, in Henan province, China looks upon Tibet with horror, a major reason why so few Han Chinese settle there unless incentivised by special hardship payments additional to state salary.
Frigid climate
By area, one quarter of China is the Tibetan Plateau; but everything about it is problematic. Not only is the Tibetan Plateau cold, from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective it is unnaturally and dangerously cold.
Fragile Ecology
One of the most common metaphors defining the Tibetan Plateau, based (consciously or not) on the foundational Anthropocene assumption that all human interventions are destructive. Tibetans find this characterisation puzzling.
Arid Dry Land
Arid dry land 旱地 hàndì Much of China is arid, including most of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Core Han Chinese culture originated on the well-watered North China Plains, further watered by the Yellow River.