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Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.
-By Jagannath Panda and Mrittika Guha Sarkar (Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs)
In mid-December, China marked the thirtieth anniversary of the official inauguration of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world’s largest hydroelectric project (in terms of installed capacity). Notwithstanding the decades-long ecological controversies surrounding the dam, the Chinese government has boosted the project as a hallmark of its economic development policies.
Days after the anniversary, Chinese state media announced that the government had approved another massive hydropower project in the lower reaches of the world’s highest river, Yarlung Zangbo (or “Yarlung Tsangpo,” the Tibetan name for the river also known as the B...
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