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Geopolitics

Bhutan's 10X Gamble: Preserving Soul or Selling Out in a Neo-Colonial World?

Bhutan is undertaking a dramatic economic transformation, dubbed '10X', that involves special economic zones, digital assets, and high-end investment while attempting to preserve its centuries-old traditions and its famous Gross National Happiness index. This desperate gamble exposes the cruel pressure on nations of the Global South, forced to potentially sacrifice their soul and sovereignty to survive in a world order designed to enrich the imperial core.

Geopolitics

The Mindfulness Mirage: How Bhutan Sells Stolen Land to the World

Bhutan is promoting the Gelephu Mindfulness City as a future model of mindful development to foreign investors, a project to be built on southern lands from which over 100,000 Nepali-speaking citizens were forcibly evicted in the 1990s. This 'mindful' development is a cruel sham, a neo-colonial land grab that whitewashes a brutal history of ethnic cleansing and ongoing oppression to sell a sanitized, profitable fantasy to international capital.