China’s opacity turns Himalayan rivers into water bombs

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Records of similar flash floods along the India-Tibet border during the past quarter century exposes the tendency of China to keep neighbours in the dark.

The devastation caused by flash floods in a Tibetan river system in Nepal and India during the last week of August has many dimensions that go far beyond a “natural” tragedy and the helplessness of human society before nature’s fury. The way the Chinese government, the colonial ruler of Tibet, handled this tragedy deserves to be vi...

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