Home and away, China putting tight new squeeze on Tibet

1 year ago

China is tightening control over Tibet and flexing its strategic roof of the world advantage by cyber-spying on the Dalai Lama’s supporters “worldwide from Lhasa to London,” opening Tibet’s international airport to Singapore and Nepal, and building the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam on a glacier-fed river.

China prizes resource-rich Tibet’s lofty Himalayan heights, which allow the People’s Liberation Army to “look down” on India, China’s regional rival, and provide a formidable buffer between Beijing and New Delhi.

The United Kingdom’s GCHQ intelligence agency, meanwhile, is warning Tibetan and foreign activists, researchers and supporters of the self-exiled 14th Dalai Lama that they are in danger of infection from “malicious actors” who created international surveillance malware identified as MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR.

The British government’s National Cyber Security...

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