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China has broken ground on what it says will be the world’s largest hydropower project, a $170bn feat capable of generating ...
Once constructed, it will be the world's largest hydropower dam. Its size and scale could also enable Beijing to release large amounts of water that could flood border areas on the Indian side.
Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...
Bangladesh has expressed confidence in China’s explanation of its new hydropower project upstream on the Brahmaputra River, ...
A campaign framing the Brahmaputra as a shared heritage could pressure China. India should invest in modernising irrigation, ...
This is no ordinary project. First proposed in the 1990s and later elevated to national priority in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower station is widely seen as the country’s ...
The $167 billion initiative has raised significant environmental and geopolitical concerns, especially in neighbouring India ...
NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as ...
China has started building a dam on the Brahmaputra River. The project is near the Line of Actual Control. India is closely ...
China has started construction of what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam. Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 19 led a ...
Satellite imagery gives a glimpse of the site where China has commenced construction on what will become the world's largest ...
China has broken ground on what it says will be the world's largest hydropower project, a $170  billion feat capable of ...