Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

24.6.11

The Kansu Braves, Hu Songshan and the Koumintang

The Muslim history in China intriguing.

Check out the Kansu Braves who fought in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against the Eight Nation Allians.

Hu Songshan, who went to Hajj and came back a Chinese nationalist


and of course the Koumintang, who now run Taiwan

24.5.10

Dam Tibet

News story on Chinese hydro electric plans for Tsang Po (China) - Brahmaputra (India) - Jamuna (Bangladesh)

This is setting up a gruesome hegemon hegemon on ganj interation.

The Deshi wonders what the impacts could be. How would flow from upstream be affected over the seasons? Would there be any benefits from reduced sediment transport (like less erosion)? What about the people displaced by construction? and the fish...