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China's Hydropower Strategy: Threats, challenges and responses Monday, February 08, 2021 By: ET The recent project of China to construct a dam in a region located in the Tibet Autonomous Region known as Medog County, as a part of generating renewable energy initiatives, has drawn heightened tensions to the states on India's border. This has been another addition to the construction of dams along the mainstream of the Yarlung Tsangpo which began long back in 2010. The new dam could help generate up to 60 gi...

In the foothills of the Himalayas, where the ancient Yarlung civilisation established the first Tibetan Empire, China has plans to build the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam. In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for a 60-gigawatt mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Now with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, Beijing has redoubled its efforts on its hydropower projects in Tibet, even though the dams have drawn criticism from Tibetan rights groups and environmentalists. Tenzin Dolmey has never stepped foot o...

​Ering added that Chinas proposed mammoth hydropower project in Medog county of Tibet will be a great threat to India and negatively impact Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and other states. The proposed dam threatens the complete inundation of low-lying areas in Arunachal Pradesh.

Updated: January 31, 2021 11:37 IST China is planning to build a huge dam on the river Brahmaputra. And it has raised concern in downstream countries – India and Bangladesh. What is the Chinese dam project all about and what could be its impact? Let’s find out in this Five Ws & One H... Share Article AAA In this July 17, 2020, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water flows out from sluiceways at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River near Yichang in central China's Hubei Province. Engorged with heavy rains, China's mighty Yangtze River crested again in July, as destruc...

China's Attempt to Build Dam on Brahmaputra will be Termed as Encroachment: India The chairman of the Power Construction Corp of China said that they will implement hydropower exploitation in the downstream of the Yarlung Zangbo River.   |  21 Jan 2021 9:43 AM GMT NEW DELHI: During a review meeting of Central Water Commission, Rattan Lal Kataria, Minister of State in the Jal Shakti Ministry stated that China's attempt to build a hydropower station on the Brahmaputra river will act as an encroachment. According to reports, a statement by the ministry of Jal Shakti mentioned that China to ...