CHINA’S MEGA-HYDRO SCHEME SPARKS OUTCRY IN INDIA
The Chinese state’s hydro-electric activities on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River—known in India as the Brahmaputra—have long been a source of tension with the downstream countries of India and Bangladesh, which cite a risk of ecological disaster. Now Beijing has started building a colossal dam at the Tsangpo’s great bend in southeastern Tibet, close to the border with the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Chinese Premier Li Qiang just attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Medog Hydropower Station in Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, and hailed it as the “project of the century.” But the $168 billion hydro-dam, which will be the world’s largest when it is completed, is described by Arunachal Pradesh leaders as an “existential threat.” CounterVortex correspondent Nava Thakuria reports from Northeast India.
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