It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory
> "With new water from Tibet, Xinjiang would boom like California,"
War for water is getting real. RIP Bangladesh, East Indian States and Uyghur people, the former two for starving due to the loss of a huge water source for their crops, and the latter for becoming a stranger in their own lands after millions of Chinese flow into Xinjiang for jobs and cheap food/housing. Inflow being trivialized by high-speed rail.
I don't have any to recommend as I'm just starting to read them.