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  • I think it would be easier to answer if we knew what specific story you are referring to and what the source is.

    I will say one thing though, which is that Tibet is very large and very sparsely populated. You would have to try very hard to specifically dump next to the very few places where people actually live.

    Not to mention that this goes against the general trend that China has been on for more than a decade now where they have put a lot of political emphasis on cleaning up and protecting the environment.

    Is there still waste and dumping happening? Probably. But not nearly to the same extent it was twenty-thirty years ago.





  • Exactly. One of the reasons why the imperialist propaganda machine is able decades later to spin up these narratives, like “Holodomor” or X million deaths in the Soviet Gulags or the Great Leap Forward, is because there was very little contemporary documentation in English or other Western languages at the time.

    And of course if a source is in Russian or Chinese it is much more obscure, or easily ignored, or discarded as “regime propaganda” unless coming from defectors with an axe to grind against the socialist government. At the time those socialist governments had more important things to worry about than their perception in Western countries.

    It is immensely helpful to have third party sources (meaning not on the payroll of Western governments) that do the work of compiling the primary sources and history in such a way that it can be digested by Western audiences, if only to show that there were people actively debunking this stuff as it was being fabricated.