Muy interesante el artículo de hoy del Financial Times sobre lo que está pasando en estos momentos en el Tibet.
Publicado en la edición de hoy, está escrito por Geoff Dyer y Richard McGregor. Dyer cubre la información del área desde la capital de la Región Autónoma del Tibet, Lhasa
Es un poco largo pero merece la pena.

Tibet untamed

By Geoff Dyer and Richard McGregor

When China inaugurated the first rail link to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in 2006, officials were justifiably thrilled at the engineering achievement. Running higher than any other railway in the world, the track covers more than 500km of permafrost: engineers secured the rails by driving pins 30m into the ground and developed an air cooling system to stop the ice melting in the summer.

China’s leaders billed the railway as a symbol of the government’s efforts to bring its brand of economic modernisation to the distant, mountainous and isolated region. “The railway is of major significance for accelerating the economic and social development of Tibet,” said President Hu Jintao, who was once Communist party secretary of the province. “It shows we have the courage, confidence and ability to stand among the advanced peoples of the world.”

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