I. Geographic Crucible: Asia’s Pivotal Endorheic Artery Flowing relentlessly through the Taklamakan Desert – Earth’s second-largest shifting-sand desert – the Tarim River traverses 1,321 kilometers across northwestern China, anchoring the largest inland river basin in the country encompassing over 1 million square kilometers. Its watershed extends from the Kunlun-Pamir knot where tectonic collisions birth glaciers sustaining continental hydrology, descending through hyper-arid basins receiving merely 50 […]
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China has a territorial area of about 9.6 million square kilometers (excluding territorial sea), and is the third largest country on the earth after Russia and Canada. China’s version looks like a cock, and the plump cocktail is Xinjiang. As the saying goes, you are not feeling the vastness and breadth of the motherland without […]