The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy

This is about the huge dam that China is going to build in occupied Tibet, on the Brahmaputra river, which China calls Yarlung Tsangpo. There are many small and inconsequential dams on this river already (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_on_the_Brahmaputr...) but the new proposed dam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medog_Hydropower_Station) is going to be the world’s largest power station and is very far upstream.

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.