Maura Moynihan is a New York author, journalist, and long time analyst of the Chinese Communist Party occupation of Tibet. She has worked for many years with Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Her works of fiction include “Yoga Hotel” and “Kaliyuga.”
Magnificent rivers that water 11 countries, nourishing 3 billion people, rise out of the Tibetan plateau. This bounty was for millennia taken for granted, but is now threatened, as Tibetan stewardship has been replaced by the Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation.
In 1962 Mao Zedong prophesied that China would one day conquer “Tibet’s Five Fingers”: the Indian territories of Ladakh, Sikkim, and Arunchal, and the nations of Bhutan and Nepal. Recent actions by China in the Himalayan regions are part of that grand strategy.