CHINA is pressing ahead with plans to construct a mega-dam near its contested border with India, a colossal undertaking that could generate three times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam. The Chinese government approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, without giving more details.
Previous reports indicated the dam would be the world’s biggest and require 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) of investment—making it one of the costliest infrastructure projects ever and likely a huge boon to Beijing’s efforts to revive growth. The dam could also become a source of renewed tension between China and India, as the Yarlung Tsangpo runs through the contested Arunachal Pradesh area and feeds into one of India’s major rivers. Ties between two nations have just stabilized after a four-year stalemate over a June 2020 border clash that killed some 20 Indian and at least four Chinese. The project would take at least a decade to build and require connecting to the grid further east as there’s “zero need” for this sort of energy supply in Tibet, said David Fishman, a Shanghai-based senior manager at the Lantau Group, an energy consulting firm. “It’s a massive engineering undertaking. The river itself has excellent hydropower resources,” he added. “Everybody downstream is going to be concerned about what it means if water flow is reduced. I know India is very anxious about it.” Beijing appears aware of the sensitivities. An article from 2020 asking whether a hydroproject on the river—known as the Brahmaputra in India—would wipe out Tibet’s last tigers was censored on messaging platform WeChat. By Friday, that link returned the message: “The content violated rules and cannot be seen.” India’s Ministry of External Affairs declined to comment when contacted for further informatio
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