This has the potential to be a huge environmental and cultural disaster like the Three Gorges Dam, but it is also a massive security risk for the nations downstream, like India or Bangladesh. Roughly 70% of this river’s waters end up discharging in India, and this is around a third of India’s total freshwater supply as a country. Given Trump’s tariffs against India, which oddly are higher than those on China, I think India is in a tough position where it also wants to build relationships with China. Maybe that means they won’t go to war with China over this issue.
In the end though, this is another nail in the coffin of Tibet unless the world wakes up and does something about it. People forget that Chinese communists took over Tibet by force only around 1950. It’s why the Dalai Lama lives in exile in India even today. This region and Xinjiang should not be part of China and should be freed up, to be independent or maybe autonomous provinces of a trustworthy democracy like India. But leaving these vast lands, and their helpless people, to the whims of the CCP, is a huge injustice.
ompogUe · 13h ago
Maybe they're thinking, if they "accidentally" break the dam and let the waters rage downstream, they can flood Dharmashala and no one will know it ever existed?
mytailorisrich · 6h ago
> People forget that Chinese communists took over Tibet by force only around 1950.
Well they "re-took" it since this happened only because Tibet used the opportunity of the turmoil created by the fall of Qing dynasty and help from the British to declare independence from China in 1912 and to give what is now Arunachal Pradesh to the British.
litbear2022 · 14h ago
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tomhow · 9h ago
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This has the potential to be a huge environmental and cultural disaster like the Three Gorges Dam, but it is also a massive security risk for the nations downstream, like India or Bangladesh. Roughly 70% of this river’s waters end up discharging in India, and this is around a third of India’s total freshwater supply as a country. Given Trump’s tariffs against India, which oddly are higher than those on China, I think India is in a tough position where it also wants to build relationships with China. Maybe that means they won’t go to war with China over this issue.
In the end though, this is another nail in the coffin of Tibet unless the world wakes up and does something about it. People forget that Chinese communists took over Tibet by force only around 1950. It’s why the Dalai Lama lives in exile in India even today. This region and Xinjiang should not be part of China and should be freed up, to be independent or maybe autonomous provinces of a trustworthy democracy like India. But leaving these vast lands, and their helpless people, to the whims of the CCP, is a huge injustice.
Well they "re-took" it since this happened only because Tibet used the opportunity of the turmoil created by the fall of Qing dynasty and help from the British to declare independence from China in 1912 and to give what is now Arunachal Pradesh to the British.
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.*
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