So, China is building a series of five dams on an active fault line: scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…

Which seems like a terrible idea… unless, I suppose, the motives are more geopolitical than domestic: tibetanreview.net/india-raises…

In which case, maybe it doesn't matter so much to the Chinese government whether the dams hold up, so long as it keeps their neighbors from deriving too much competitive advantage from the river.
#politics #China #India #Tibet

India raises its guard as China accelerates building of world’s largest, potentially most dangerous hydropower dam in Tibet - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Jun20’26) – India is monitoring with high alarm the site in Tibet where satellite imagery and intelligence inputs reveal a sharp acceleration in China’s construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in a seismically active…

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