The Plateau Fallacy: Why Border Infrastructure Cannot Copy China’s Tibet Playbook: Santa demands high-speed, aggressive tunneling across the Himalayan border, arguing that “if it works on the other side of the fence, it must work here.” Banta deploys 3D geomorphological models to expose the brutal physical asymmetry between the flat, arid Tibetan Plateau and the steep, monsoon-swept, hyper-dissected southern slopes of the Indian Himalayas.