China’s Yarlung Tsangpo mega-dam: A gamble, assimilation tool, strategic weapon, and development project

9 months ago

(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’25) – China’s $167 billion mega-dam in Tibet is more than anything else a tool to assimilate Tibet through economic integration and infrastructure dominance, reinforced by its potential to revive the country’s ailing economy and as a weapon to be unleashed any time the need arises. The fact that the project lies in a seismically active Himalayas, which makes it a huge gamble, is apparently of only secondary concern.

China’s assurance about the safety and, in fact, claimed usefulness for flood-control and so forth, of the world’s biggest ever hydroelectric power dam project at such a fragile yet potently strategic location does not, and cannot, address these con...

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