China promises no adverse effect on downstream India from inherently dangerous Yarlung Tsangpo super dam

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(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’25) –As the conundrum about the geological and geostrategic dangers arising from the ongoing construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo super dam, the world’s largest, refuses to die down, China has again sought to reassure downstream India that it will not try to benefit at the “expense of its neighbours”. However, Beijing will sound a bit more convincing if it signs legally binding treaties on sharing of transnational rivers, which it, however, refuses.

Given the project’s location in a seismically active Himalayan area and China’s uneasy ties with India, the dam is seen as both a natural disaster waiting to happen and a hydrological weapon of mass destruction...

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