China’s Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibe

They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world.

Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers are pouring into remote Tibet. After theviolence that ravaged this region in 2008China’s aim is to make Tibet wealthier — and more Chinese.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/asia/25tibet.html

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