The Dialectics

China’s Mega-Dam Projects And Shadow of the Sino-Indian Tensions

After nearly four years of the Doklam Valley clashes, India and China reached a settlement on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in 2024 bringing relative peace to Eastern Ladakh and building hopes for a potential cooperation between the nuclear giants in Asia. In the meantime, China has continued to develop its infrastructure projects on the eastern borders with India along Arunachal Pradesh. In the most recent case, China announced the construction of a hydropower plant in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra, according to an official statement quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. The project will cost about $137 billion and is projected to be the world's largest dam once constructed, it is expected to generate more than 300 billion kWh of electricity each year — enough to meet the annual needs of over 300 million people....

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