The Dalai Lama describes Chinese destruction.

Chinese property since 17th century.
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Chinese atrocities in Tibet:

"On about the fifth day [after departure from Lhasas], we were overtaken by a posse of horsemen who brought terrible news. Just over forty-eight hours after my departure, the Chinese had begun to shell the Norbulingka and to machine-gun the defenceless crowd, which was still in place. My worst fears had come true. I realised that it would be impossible to negotiate with people who behaved in this cruel and criminal fashion."

From: Freedom in Exile, the Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

Chinese occupation of Tibet:

Approximately 1.2 million Tibetans died during the thirty years following the Chinese occupation in 1949. . . . Due to population transfers of Chinese to Tibet and forced birth control of Tibetans still in Tibet, the Chinese in Tibet now outnumber native Tibetans. Almost all the monasteries in the country were systematically destroyed . . . and the practice of Tibetan religion . . . was strictly outlawed. . . .

[The Chinese have eroded] Tibetan life and culture and [established] the supremacy of Chinese culture and control. Tibetans are required to register their area of residence and travel outside this area is highly restricted. Tibetans have a very minimal participation in the Chinese controlled government administration. Tibetans are given last preference in the labor market and mostly scrape by selling or trading goods in the open marketplaces. Today, between 70 and 90 percent of small businesses in Lhasa, the traditional capital of Tibet are Chinese owned.

Chinese spoliation of Tibet:

There are more than a thousand different trees in the primeval forests of Tibet . . . . Half of Tibet's forests have been felled since 1959 providing the Chinese with $50 billion worth of lumber. The most common form of timber harvesting is clear cutting which has led to vast hillsides being denuded . . . [and] major floods . . . . More than a quarter of Tibet's mineral resources have been extracted since 1959. Tibet contains the largest uranium deposits in the world. Uranium has been processed in Tibet leading to contamination of drinking water and the death of Tibetans in Ngapa, Amdo. Radioactive contamination of other groundwater is a great concern.

Since the Chinese occupation, the [vast herds of wildlife] have all but disappeared because of the folly of wholly unregulated shooting by soldiers and the loss of habitat that occurred as the simple subsistence lifestyle of old Tibet was squashed to fit Marxist ideals. As communes were required to raise livestock products for export to China, sensitive winter range in the most temperate valleys became radically overgrazed.

Emphasis added.

From: Kalahari Lighthouse